What are some communities, people, companies, games, books, films, etc. that have naturally attracted & connected very bright, curious, interesting + generally optimistic people? I'm thinking @pmarca, @slatestarcodex, @DavidDeutschOxf's books, @stripe, the nerdier side of crypto
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Replying to @webdevMason @pmarca and
slightly not the question you asked, but there are certain hypotheses/topics that are convergent for smart/curious/interesting/optimistic people to get into, to one degree or another, such that they're kind of "flags" for being especially worth making friends with.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @webdevMason and
*infectious disease etiologies for things that aren't normally thought of as infectious diseases (like Alzheimer's, obesity, gastric ulcers before that got proven conclusively, etc.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @webdevMason and
*serious evolutionary psychology (the kind where you know a lot of specific facts about animal behavior and/or think about differential equations, not just the kind where you talk about sexual dynamics in humans)
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*neural prostheses, brain stimulation, neurofeedback -- manipulating the brain with physics instead of chemistry.
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*import-export, shipping, supply chains
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*linguistics, how learning works, esp. if they compare observations about learning in humans, animals, and computer algorithms
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*neuroendocrinology. if you're a hypothalamus stan, you and I will get along, inevitably, for completely unrelated reasons.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @webdevMason and
*game theory, incentives, mechanism design, etc.
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Common threads: the obvious questions to ask as a human are "who are we? where did we come from? what is the brain/mind doing? what's up with living and interacting in groups? how can we intervene on any of these systems to get more of what we want and less of what we don't?"
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