Patri Friedman

@patrissimo

Digital sessile writing on virtue, venture, family, freedom, and building new cities

Monterey, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: listopad 2008.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    26. srp 2019.

    1/ Yesterday was my farewell lunch at Google after 10 years (2004-2008 & 2013-2019). The first stint was my first full-time job, it was amazing to see growth from 5k to 50k employees, and I learned a lot about tech & culture.

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  2. 2. velj

    Discipline your thoughts towards what is true & useful (). Serve as an example. Take your info diet seriously and cut sources with any trace of poison. Quarantine yourself from toxic, contagious memes. (Sorry if this is cranky - I have the flu 😝🤒🤮😷)

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  3. 2. velj

    So what should you do? Learn your circle of control. Work on your own life first. Over time, choose a plausible way to efficiently help humanity and push forward steadily. Ignore or douse outrage fires in yourself, family, and community.

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  4. 2. velj

    Want to save lives? Give to an EA fund . Want to specifically stop flu deaths? Go volunteer at a clinic & reduce the 10k/year American deaths. But that's not what you want. You want some cheap distraction because it's easier than working on your life.

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  5. 2. velj

    Ever laughed at preppers? Congrats, you’re one of them now. Sneer at anti-vaxxers? Congrats, you now share their category - you’ve let your mind be hijacked by overblown concerns about small but real fears to your own personal detriment.

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  6. 2. velj

    But you don’t work for the WHO. You've never been to Wuhan. Probably you don’t even know anyone who has. You aren’t part of the mismatched team of stubborn weirdos working on the real problem. You’re just a free billboard for any news that pattern-matches “exciting movie plot”.

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  7. 2. velj

    I’m glad the CDC & WHO obsess, worry, debate, and study things like nCoV. That’s their job, and I thank God they exist & are funded. There's clear black swan risk & it’s critical that professionals be tracking, crafting countermeasures, and de-risking for the humanity.

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  8. 2. velj

    I’m glad that China is now acting strongly. I'm glad the tiny number of actually-exposed people in the US (PUIs) are tracked, quarantined, tested, and monitored. That’s sensible, practical, and worthwhile. That’s our circle of control.

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  9. 2. velj

    We worry way too much about the wrong things - distant plagues instead of our own personal health. We use toxic shock media to distract ourselves from presence in our own life. We're manipulated by actors, foreign & domestic, who use high-valence bait to sucker our attention.

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  10. 2. velj

    By spreading fear porn, you might as well be a Russian bot account, spreading controversy-stoking political ads. These virulent memes, like political outrage, have no direct physical effect, but directly impede our sense of the Stoic circle of control.

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  11. 2. velj

    Metacontrarian take on nCoV: Your panic is the real pandemic. We live in an age of anxiety, where global connected media have driven us to a fever pitch of unhealthy obsession with irrelevant distant events. Our brains are hijacked by amplified signals of primitive threats.

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  12. 1. velj

    Anyway, I predict more net global health harm from the stress of worrying about ncov than the disease itself. Maybe I'm making the mistake of not believing the boy when he's finally seen a real wolf. But so far, it seems the usual. Opinion ?

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  13. 1. velj

    Either that, or I keep in mind that normal flu killed 10,000 Americans this year from 1M cases, and that the touted pandemics that grab the spotlight every few years never amount to much. AIDS, 30 years ago, was the only one that turned out to be serious.

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  14. 1. velj

    I'm such an idiot for expecting the primary topics of foolish internet conspiracy ramblings this year would be about Trump & the elections. Instead, it's a bat virus that that has killed 213 people. Heavens! I tremble with fear at this enormous threat. 😨😱😨😱

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  15. proslijedio/la je Tweet
    31. sij

    To be "diverse" is not enough, or even hugely relevant. What matters is being a fanatical supporter of the diversity cult.

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    31. sij
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  17. 30. sij

    "Belief in God propagated because it reflected inaccessible truths about the cultural evolution which actually produced the accompanying ethical systems." There's something beautifully ironic about this view of God as a symbol for the results of an evolutionary process.

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  18. 29. sij
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  19. 29. sij

    D/ For example, I am becoming a happier, more compassionate person as I slowly learn to open my heart to God (h/t ). My life was worse when I let the truth of atheism shut out the usefulness of faith. Many others have found the same.

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  20. 29. sij

    C/ And so I ask you, my small but influential audience, to keep this tension in mind as you conduct your life, build systems, analyze the world, and move our species forward. Don't just think about what is true, but what is useful - and how to align them.

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  21. 29. sij

    B/ Or consider the truths about humanity's impact on Earth, which is often negative, and leads foolish people to forget the useful belief that Nature is here to serve Humans. A belief without which we would never have built the satellites that now measure our thermodynamic guilt.

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