Occam’s Razor, “correlation is not causation,” and other intellectual rejectamenta like that are a sign that someone is not thinking, but rather relying on broken heuristics and is similar to some rubbish ML algo that can only throw out phrases related to what it’s been trained on.
Avoid these people at all costs because they can contaminate your own thoughts.
Photo I took in McDowell Nature Preserve near Charlotte, NC, in April 2018:
No manipulation other than making it look closer to what it appeared to a human eye in real life (no filters, etc).
The idea that innovation only happens in big cities is dumb. Throughout history as well as today we find innovation in all places, from rural to urban. Don't believe the hype.https://t.co/nknboydEjf
— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) January 3, 2020
Yeah. I’ve always been suspcious of the progressive mantra of “Innovation can only happen in big cities, agglomeration effects, yada yada” hype but hadn’t researched it much on my own. It appears I was correct to have doubts.
I have not read the entire paper yet, as I have a huge backlog already, but will in the next few weeks.
I'm biased here, but this is one of the strongest visual illusions I have ever seen.
None of the colored lines are moving. pic.twitter.com/QcW3u6WFB4
— Chris Said (@Chris_Said) January 3, 2020
Is this an illusion? It doesn’t look like the lines are moving to me. I don’t get it.
Really it's too much to expect somebody be capable of producing great art and also have only the correct opinions on every subject, ever
— ॐ OM Chomsky 🏴 (@OM_Chomsky) January 5, 2020
People (well, the woke idiots) expect artists to be transgressive, but never to transgress in any unexpected direction.
Ain’t gonna happen, ever.
Only in financial services do you have crooked bookies fixing the odds in their own favor, betting in their own markets and STILL losing 🤦🏼♀️
— Max Mustermann (@realdeannahavas) January 5, 2020
Mostly explained by greed. It’s easy to cheat and win small over time, reliably. But what they want and attempt to do is to cheat and win big fast.
That is what leads to foot-shooting and diaster. Also, most of them aren’t very smart.
So many things I assume people just know…they don’t.
I rarely trust people who aren’t autodidacts because credentials are too easy to achieve while knowing little.
But if you’re an autodidact, you really have to know your shit to get anywhere.
Yes, this is what it takes, unless you are taking just loads of steroids.
I think most men know that, but very few women. In fact, most women know far less about men and their experiences than they think they do.
Anyway, one of the best illustrations I’ve seen of that is not with a man, but Rhonda Rousey at her weigh-in vs. her fight weight. Note that these photos were taken only about 24 hours apart:
Why the huge difference? Mostly dehydration. To get in a lower weight class, she would’ve been actively purging water, not drinking, and using other techniques to drop weight. That’s about a 15-20 pound weight difference there in a single day.
Nearly any male actors you see in movies/shows also do this if they have any shirtless scenes.
Taking normal words that are in common use and claiming that you're racist because a conservative used that word is a standard tactic by the corporate left. I've been told I'm an anti-semite because I criticized bankers. https://t.co/R26sqwgfdG
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 4, 2020
This is very common now. If you are against jobs being shipped overseas: racism! If you don’t agree that banksters should own and control everything: anti-semitism! If you are against the destruction of labor and the working class by open borders policies: racism again!
You get the idea. The left/progressives are now fully behind the woke capital self-serving conviction that if it’s against capital and its imperatives, it is definitionally racism or anti-semitism.