We grapple with the immorality of 1000 cuts via social media vs that of one large blow of emotional abuse. When harm is subtle, gradual, but done at massive scale, our little human minds struggle to really understand it.

CONFUSING CARE WITH LOVE
It seems to me that some people choose partners who are broken because they think caring for broken people is love. They confuse the concept of caring for broken people with romantic love. Both are a form of love but each require a totally different relationship.

THE IRONY OF EMOTIONAL VULNERABILITY
When one brings up their emotions calmly and the other accuses them of being "too sensitive". Ironically it may be the other doing the accusing who is "too sensitive" to handle a calm conversation about emotions.

I think we got video games backward, we should be out running and playing when we are young and playing video games when we are old and stuck in a chair with arthritis.

For a lot of years I have heard claims that people who speak different languages think differently. The question I have is the following:
Do the differences in how language impacts perception and thinking matter more between different languages or more between individual users of a single language?

I watched the Sora demo yesterday—an OpenAI tool that creates realistic videos. Be prepared for the death of amazement. Soon, we’ll see fake generated car crashes, daring stunts, disasters, extraordinary animals, and more. When someone captures the amazing on film you will discount it as AI.

Most of the time, when a stranger is talkative...
do you suspect they are a tweaker and then are surprised when they are not?
Or do you expect they are sociable and then are surprised when they are not?

A significant feature of our era is social technology built by anti-social people.

A man in the sauna the other day said to me:
"it just seems to me like women are more often crazy than men",
to which I responded "have you ever been in a romance with a man?"..."no"..."then how do you know? Seems to me relationships bring out the passions in everyone."

The film M3gan is interesting because it critiques anti-social social engineers and companies who create technology that affects the social sphere with little understanding, expertise, or testing in how their technology will impact the public.

In the 19th century pasteurization and ice boxes brought us clean food
In the 20th century chlorination brought us clean water
In the 21th century we have dirty information and dirty money

Definition: Prediction Diary - a place where a person puts down statements like "I made X course of action, because I predicted Y to happen", "I have X emotion because I am predicting Y to happen."

Specialization is at the foundation of civilization but trust is at the foundation of specialization.

A good man will not survive bad incentives.

Let's see how good your intuition is. Guess the percentage by weight of the chocolate vs. the cashew. Does the nut weigh more or less than the chocolate coating? See comments for answer. Post what your initial guess was. I am interested to see how your intuition compares to mine.

Years ago I wrote down a list of my political positions and then I searched for evidence against and for each position. I recommend this to anyone. How well can you really argue for your positions?