Month: May 2017

the two most important concepts in critical thinking are context and validation. you must know where you are and what situation you are in. without that knowledge, you cannot make assumptions or generalizations that your ideas are correct. secondly, you must validate all assumptions because assumptions are almost always wrong. 

as i understand the thesis of money, the book, the only way to make lots of money is to exploit flaws in the system. so like all billionaires and lance armstrong, cheat cheat cheat cheat cheat, lie lie lie lie lie, steal steal steal steal steal!!!

correction to my previous thought. that was the mechanism for the endogenous image of god. now on to the flow brain. kahnemann says there are two brains, the fast brain and the slow brain. what if there are more? more minds, i mean? what about the brain that handles flows of creative thought? i propose at least a third brain. the flow brain. 

i’ve always known so. but what is the mechanism underlying the belief in a supernatural being in most humans? indoctrination, clearly. but why do they continue to believe after nothing proves out? the human brains. plural. he consciousness we experience is simply one brain. but there are many. the physical brain is divided into multiple distinct processing units which barely communicate. the gut. the microbiome. only some of these can "we" communicate with directly, and even fewer of these can "we" control. it’s simple evolution. since we were not designed, we evolved to survive. this evolution gave us many mechanisms for survival, and one of them turned out to be the disconnection of our many intelligences. we survive because we cannot turn off our hearts at will. 

you know a system is easy to manipulate it when it becomes a game. pattern #276: get the highest credit limit you can on a credit card. keep the balance at 0. buy a pack of gum on it once a month. set up an automatic payment (or remember!) and pay it back down to zero every month. 

saw dan today at a meet and greet. fuck you dan. you’re still a bully. hope you enjoy the syphilis your wife gave you. 

sorry, happy people. some days are bad. also, you’re fucking liars. 

the desire for self control is bad. it makes me withhold effort and thereby reduce my self confidence. the best replacement is an understanding of the goals and obstacles that are upcoming and to formulate a plan to reach the goals and overcome the obstacles. in other words, do what humans evolved to do — strategize and plan.