[email protected] (via Elliot) What are you going to do today? — Every day, you get up and do things. Of the infinity of possible actions you could take today, how will you decide which things to actually do? Will you decide at all? Or are you on autopilot? Yesterday, did you do anything at all that wasn’t merely reacting to incoming stimuli? Stimuli like:... April 23, 2021 [email protected] (via Elliot) BREAKING: CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency — Dear Elliot, Project Veritas released a new video today exposing CNN Director Charlie Chester, who admitted that his network engaged in propaganda <https://veritas.cmail20.com/t/j-l-fxyhtk-trkuijkuq-r/> to benefit Biden’s candidacy during the 2020 election to the detriment of then-President Trump... April 13, 2021 [email protected] (via Elliot) Proposal-palooza — A bunch of the current TPS <http://t.dripemail2.com/c/eyJhY2NvdW50X2lkIjoiNzU5OTgyNSIsImRlbGl2ZXJ5X2lkIjoiMXhhZW11d3RrajAwOGsxb3lwZjYiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vdGhlcHJpY2luZ3NlbWluYXIuY29tIn0> participants joined me today for a live teardown of the proposals we’ve been workshopping. Unfortunately, I c... March 19, 2021 1 [email protected] (via Elliot) backbone, pushback, standing up for your ideas — you need to be sturdy to do well here or anywhere. don’t be pushed around or controlled by people who weren’t even trying to push you around, because you’re so weak and fragile almost anything can boss you around without even try. broadly: people give advice, ideas, criticism, etc. some can he... March 17, 2021 5 [email protected] (via Elliot) Methodology Matters > 50% — From Discord: Freeze: >>>> I can be myself and be stupid/flawed/have bad ideas/questions/thoughts and still be accepted [at FI] TheRat: >>> no. There are a lot of ideas here that are not accepted, and I've presented in a flawed way that have been attacked, but not the idea, my ability to pres... February 26, 2021 [email protected] (via Elliot) [FI] Bounded Discussion — Dennis (D) is a typical story. D is used to conversations with people/actions/ideas in a particular range. Something like: In dimension 1, he's used to people/actions/ideas in the range 34.7374 to 89893.78343 In dimension 2, he's used to people/actions/ideas in the range 874.34 to 11193.7 In ... February 26, 2021 [email protected] (via Elliot) How People Get Socially Conditioned — On Mar 28, 2019, at 5:50 PM, Elliot Temple <[email protected]> wrote: > How can someone be as dishonest, evasive, and socially manipulative as Kate? And as unaware of what she’s doing as Kate is? It seems kinda strange and implausible, yet actually it’s very common. I think over 99% of females are li... February 26, 2021 [email protected] (via Elliot) How People Get Socially Conditioned — How can someone be as dishonest, evasive, and socially manipulative as Kate? And as unaware of what she’s doing as Kate is? It seems kinda strange and implausible, yet actually it’s very common. I think over 99% of females are like that and over 95% of males. (Numbers are very loose but I do thin... February 26, 2021 [email protected] (via Elliot) The Conversations People Don't Want To Have — Debating is hard. Conversation doesn’t have to be debating. People find asking questions hard. They don’t know what to ask. Something is screwy there. But OK. What happens if I ask the questions? I ask what they like, what interests them, what they do, what their plans in life are. Stuff like ... February 26, 2021 1 [email protected] (via Elliot) lack of mastery examples — every adult learned some stuff to the point of MASTERY – very low attention needed, can do it great while tired/low-focus/low-effort, very low error rate, etc. like walking. and talking. and reading. and, for many people, basic arithmetic. and, for many people, the year WWII ended and the number... February 26, 2021 [email protected] (via Elliot) philosopher or puppet — you can be a philosopher or a puppet. why? cuz knowledge is needed not to be a puppet. you have to defend against that. there are static memes that will control you. there are cultural pressures that will control you. there are social dynamics that will control you. that’s the default. with no d... February 26, 2021 1 [email protected] (via Elliot) Slogs and Problem Solving Methods (was: failure to file taxes vs dine-and-dash (was: Freedom and Force Questions)) — On Dec 30, 2018, at 8:22 AM, PAS <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 30, 2018, at 12:02 AM, Elliot Temple [email protected] [fallible-ideas] <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> PS What should I take away from PAS’s lack of followup regarding this topic? Disinterest? Temporarily being busy b... February 26, 2021 1 [email protected] (via Elliot) how to make progress: persistence — the way to make progress is to keep going with something *until reaching success*. then do another thing. over time, you’ll have many successes, which can themselves be built on (doing a project that uses some prior success and goes further). the way ppl get stuck on FI is by doing things a litt... February 26, 2021 1
