Engineering the current thing

Even if it's said, it won't be understood.

Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research etc.

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Beliefs are for actions.

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1. Some videos I have released these past few weeks:

   Aesthetics in 100 Seconds
   Logic in 100 Seconds

   Empiricism in 100 Seconds

   Communism in 100 Seconds

   Qualia in 100 Seconds

   Perspectivism in 100 Seconds

   Rationalism in 100 Seconds

   Absurdism in 100 Seconds

2. Here's a rare one: psychedelic research that's not done by people who fried their brains with psychedelics

3. (Autistic) visionaries are not natural-born leaders

4. Engineering the Current Thing oldie but goldie

5. Pro-progress will win when it wins women

Even if it's said, it won't be understood.

"When you find human society disagreeable and feel yourself justified in flying to solitude, you can be so constituted as to be unable to bear the depression of it for any length of time, which will probably be the case if you are young. Let me advise you, then, to form the habit of taking some of your solitude with you into society, to learn to be to some extent alone even though you are in company; not to say at once what you think, and, on the other hand, not to attach too precise a meaning to what others say; rather, not to expect much of them, either morally or intellectually, and to strengthen yourself in the feeling of indifference to their opinion, which is the surest way of always practicing a praiseworthy toleration. If you do that, you will not live so much with other people, though you may appear to move amongst them: your relation to them will be of a purely objective character. This precaution will keep you from too close contact with society, and therefore secure you against being contaminated or even outraged by it. Society is in this respect like a fire—the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns."

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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6. The New Systems of Survival

7. The US has yet another legal problem for TikTok, with the Justice Department claiming it broke child privacy rules.

8. It's not just the fans, Samsung's chairman is also mad at the Apple-inspired designs.

9. A cool browser for historic public domain imagery.

10. The bicycle craze of the 19th century, in which both men and women participated, was seen as a moral affront by church leaders.

11. When women stopped coding

12. The arrow symbol (”→”) was invented in the late 18th century. Its earliest known use is in 1737.

13. A beginner’s guide to exploration

14. Elites are mostly lazily well-intentioned

15. Apple Maps on the web launches in beta

(͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°)Telegram/Discord group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful.

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— Robert

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