ETH was born out of the unjustified frustration of wanting to make bitcoin what it was not supposed to be. The first mindset was still very strong...

I do it often too, to avoid being embarrassed later. Sometimes, I will double-check the grammar or the structure of the sentence with AI...

The premises in the statement are questionable. Life, or the purpose of existence, is more than just hedonism. Actually, it has nothing to do with it. This is just so wrong.

Sell your bitcoin, before it goes down again, and invest in the "real economy" 🤡

I see a lot is kids with smartphones, and it's obvious that it's because their parents don't want to engage with them...

I read the post, but probably misunderstood. Unlike you, I have no practical experience, and all I know is from the book I've mentioned, hence it being my main point of reference. This last comment of yours brings more clarity, and widens my worldview. Thanks.

What I think you're describing is a teacher-led education system, and your observations are correct within that framework.

Flip your model, and notice how this changes. Alfie Kohn's Point is precisely that, in a student-led education, a genuine interest is sufficient for learning and cooperation to happen spontaneously.

A book that I have read a long time ago, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by the educator Alfie Kohn, explains very well why this approach is self-defeating and doesn't work in education. It perverses the incentives, children don't learn for the sake of learning and acquiring knowledge, but rather, for earning rewards and recognition! This is the main problem you find in the current one-size-fits-all teacher-led education.

The best motivator for learning is interest. When a child develops an interest for a particular subject, he doesn't need rewards, only guidance, he doesn't need a teacher, but only a facilitator/guide.

Maria Montessori understood this very well.

I hate it when colleagues don't do the minimum research but expect that you will magically fix their problems... I used to have a colleague, she was a contractor, I trained her for a long while. She was good, understood everything halfway, and whenever she had a question, you could see she had done her homework, and applied all the knowledge that was passed onto her. I loved her (not romantically!) A shame the company did not renew her contract.

I don't check my emails regularly as I used to, I prefer instant messaging (teams)... either chat or quick call

That's interesting, I didn't know about this momo app at all!

Yes, he got into politics in 2015-2016, and was one of the most influential pro Trump alt voices on the internet... Until he got shadow banned, then deplatformed from almost everywhere on social media, lol.

MTN is a South African telecom company, present in almost all African countries. Momo stands for mobile money...

XAF and XOF are the currency codes of the CFA Franc fiat used in former french African colonies, in West Africa (XOF) and Central Africa (XAF) - fun fact: they both have the same exchange rate but are not always interchangeable, your XOF will not always be accepted in an XAF country, lol.

If remote viewing is real, then have my stack then, lol

Currently in Turin, Italy, on holidays. It's been raining since our arrival yesterday nonstop. Bloody hell... Here's the back view from our lovely apartment.

He is, yes, just one house across the street, on locals.com, as he sometimes jokingly says. His twitter account was reinstated after the Elon acquisition, but he refuses to get back on it. He's now focusing exclusively on philosophy, no more politics or current affairs, or when he does, he will provide a philosophical analysis, which I very often find original.

Aha. Read it this morning too. Nice one.

For good conversations, he should join SN. 😎

The quote in your text reminded me that silence is always there, even in the midst of noise, it's just that our attention is pointing somewhere else, outwards. Silence is the portal that leads us back within, to ourselves.

I remember spending a week alone in a cabin in the woods, fifteen+ years ago, in full silence, with myself. My days were spent walking around, alone, doing nothing. Evenings, I was sitting by the fire, doing nothing, staring at the wall...

By the third evening, I was consumed by the most profound silence, my mind had given up the chit chat, and my attention got stuck inside. Time stopped for what appeared to be a very long moment, and I suddenly had a different perspective on myself, I was able to observe that part of myself that I usually associate with who I think I am, and often, thoughts would arise and then subside, in the midst of the most purest silence there's ever been. A beautiful timeless moment to experience that I wish to everyone.

There is an aspect of ourselves within us, an ever present nothing/void, out of which every manifestation in our lives springs. Some people say that this part of ourselves survives even physical death, they say this is who we really are... Know that this place exists inside. Find it. And when there's chaos in your life, go back to it...

"It's a feature, not a bug" some would say...

The Gell-Mann amnesia effect, according to which "everything you read in the newspapers listen on a podcast is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge," is probably what Murray, who is undoubtedly very knowledgeable about a lot of things, is experiencing when listening to other less credentialed people, and I sympathise with that. BUT, he's being very lazy with how he expresses his frustration, which I think makes him look very bad. More interesting and productive would have been to reflect on, and propose an idea, a solution to bad/wrong online speech.

The internet (and AI) has made speech very cheap, which I argue has been a net positive, and to say expertise is a requirement to opine on something is questionable to me. I have always believed that prediction markets could help mitigate the issue of online misinformation, and I'm sure there are many more tech and non tech solutions to this problem, like community notes for example.

TBH I'm personally more concerned about those "experts" who've knowingly caused wars, pandemics, and continuously lied on everything about the COVID etc, than I'm concerned of podcasters, that no one is forced to listened to, who have unpalatable views on Jews, Hitler, Churchill etc. The idea of expertise as Murray suggests sounds good but cannot work when you have an entity that has a monopoly on legal use of violence.