Galactic Goal
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Passionate Rationalist, Transparent
Joined May 2018
Watching the DNC convention via streaming on YouTube.
PBS
This is the only way that makes sense.
No talking heads.
I really love being busy.
My client just got budget to bump me up to 100% of my time.
Now I'm doing 150% output.
Geez, this Trump/Elon discussion on X is disgusting.
"Took out" may be too ambitious. Looks like a drone impact. But, they have their sights on that choke point.
The AFU just took out a bridge inside Russia that is a main logistical conduit to the boarder region just to the west of the current incursion in the Kursk region.
#ukraine
Had dinner at a fancy restaurant tonight with friends to celebrate the wife's birthday.
I gestured across the tablecloth and felt a sharp pain in my pinky finger.
I then picked out what I thought was a glass shard. Then blood started to flow.
I fixed that fast.
We tracked down the shard.
It was a salt crystal.
Salt.
Life can be funny.
Gov. Jessie Ventura sure beat up on JD Vance on CNN! Solid arguments against his statements.
About 500 young people have gathered to do a bike ride together. Cold day by the SF bay today. A rapper organized it. They are now heading to his boba shop on the other side of town!
JD Vance, aka Vladimir Futon
(Just seen on X)
#VladimirFuton
Another insight:
The Bible is a story.
This establishes a lot of beliefs.
There is plenty of irrationality in that story.
But that doesn't matter. The concepts are made tangible and abstraction is not required to understand the story. That's why it is so effective at convincing so many with such irrationality.
Imagine a world where journalists are replaced by robots that continually follow and pester politicians and the powerful with insightful questions, realtime fact-checking and unassailable arguments 24x7. And with empathy.
I'm not advocating for this.
But, it I can imagine this happening, it could probably happen.
Time for journalists to be proactive and own this creative destruction. Or else they will continue to be victimized by this trend.
Some people cannot work their thoughts abstractly.
Empathy requires some level of abstraction. Projecting yourself into someone else's situation is an abstract exercise.
The use of "story" is a way of compensating for an inability to use abstract concepts to make sense out of a situation.
These people are also highly prone to transactional ethics. 1:1 assessment. No concept of downstream consequences. That's why they are so comfortable arguing for horrible things.
I'm starting to understand that at the core of "belief" is a "story".
Without a story it's hard to establish belief.
Rationality requires abstraction. Concepts are independent of any story.
X + Y = Z is not a story.
My idea-leap: Trump supporters are highly susceptible to stories despite their irrationality. "Crime is up and all immigrants are evil because one woman was killed by an immigrant".
A story.
The data (abstract concept) says otherwise. That doesn't sink in. It never will
I'm getting to the point of complete disgust at the Gaza protestors.
Binary thinking.
If they think Trump is going to save the Gazans then there is no middle ground because they can't comprehend what is happening.
Wife came home.
A slice of cake was waiting for her.
Fruit and sprinkles and a candle.
And, I made this AI art for her.
She's in a better mood now.
Galactic Goal
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Passionate Rationalist, Transparent
Joined May 2018