Holding in a fart is bad, but I don't think that "farting around" is especially valuable, once you get over the novelty.
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Appreciating things for their actual qualities is cognitive and emotional labor, too.
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Love, hope, faith, logic, mathematics, statistics, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, information theory, game theory, systems theory, decision theory, and theoretical linguistics
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Of course, if modus ponens was discovered today, people would outlaw it.
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I decided I can take the sun for granted. I'm now obsessively grateful for the entity that tirelessly maintains the invariants inherent in the rules of logic for us.
There is no Earth 2, but there will probably be many more Big Bangs. "Human Extinction" sounds a bit dramatic knowing that, doesn't it?
I'm not anti-gravity. I just think everybody should be able to decide for themselves the direction and magnitude of their acceleration.
I lost interest in space when I learned that all those names were made up by humans
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Time to admit that Lawvere has posted cringe here
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It is not enough to not fall for fingertrap-like patterns. You must become the fingertrap.
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effortless, or at least self-sustaining in terms of energy budget, when taking the sun for granted
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asking "why did you hesitate" is basically a timing attack. rude of you to hack me
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To the extent that there is something demonic in advanced mathematics, it is also present in general analytic perception. We were meant to sense holistically, and yet we must touch parts and aspects, and make them betray their host's secrets.
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Standup comedy is just guided mediation for laughing, and fails for the same reasons
Who needs Jhanas when you can be five and unable to stop laughing becuase of the fact that you are unable to stop laughing
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meatspace convos are weird because you have to use your face to emoji react to things people say. htf do you do "yin yang emoji" with your face
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credulity atonement ritual where the ritual leader points out the lies of those in power, and the people answer in shame "We believed it."
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The main way that math is different from music is that you can't have a paper where you prove the same theorem three times, with a variation in the last repetition only.
wait why do high schoolers still have to study for the SAT if we have SAT solvers now
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don't ask me to prove this works because it literally came to me in a dream
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Your foundations are circular, mine are mutually inductive. We are not the same.




