Lens Grinding
Your perception of reality is filtered through your internal Lense
Oh look … If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions
Some People don’t understand 2nd and 3rd order effects of decisions … e.g They only see “person has no money > Solution … give them Money” without seeing any of the ramifications of the interaction beyond “They didn’t have money / Now they have money” (use better example)
The Relativity of Wrong – Isaac Asimov [Essay / Video]
The Trivium (12)
- Writing
- Logic
- Rhetoric
The Laws of Logic
MONEY
Conservation of Energy ‘
“How to live a good life” ?
Your Lens – Confirmation Bias / Perceptual Filter / Mental
Model of external Reality
Frame / Re-Framing
Is it LINDY ?
The Pareto Distribution or 80/20 Rule
(Am I a dangerous Midwit)
The midwit test / Why we are where we are (The educated idiot) [?]
Single question IQ Test –
Single Question Culture Test –
Why Communism Can Never Work
Why Mass Immigration Can Never Work – Video
The Graph that explains Everything
WORDS = VIOLENCE … Where that comes from (The way women exert soft Power by influence/Gossip/reputation sabotage)
Lobster in a pot
Paying 5x a Day
Chinese POW’s (Communism Essays)
Small incremental steps
Defending beliefs you don’t even believe
If you aske someone for a favour … they will like you more.
Luxury Beliefs
No solutions, only trade offs (trade off denialism eg. climate)
The Double Slit Experiment & Entangle Particles
We are in a Simulation / Consciousness is fundamental – Donald Hoffman
Dunning Kruger Effect – TETRIS BLOCK
Controversy / Truism /Instantly recognisable phenomenon
MEMES HAVE TO ILLUSTRATE SOMETHING THAT IS INSTANTLY RECOGNISABLE AS A “TRUISM”
If you have to explain the meme … you have already failed.
Fist the will tell you it’s not happening
Then they will admit it is happening but tell you it’s not as bad as you think
Then they will admit it is happening and it is as bad/often as you think but it doesn’t mean what you think it means
The Quran
What do “Taqiyya, Kitman, Tawriya & Izzah” Mean (and why it matters)?
also … The “Jizya” – The Tax Non-Muslims have to pay for being Non-Muslim in a Muslim country governed by Sharia
How the Quran is ordered > Verse Length rather than Chronological order > But verses are to be interpreted in Chronological order later (more aggressive) verses supercede earlier (Gentler) Passages
The Bible is the big book of multiple choice … the Quran is not.
Examples from io – X Post
Books
Atomic Habits – James Clear
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Think & Grow Rich
How to Win Friends & Influence People –
SCOTT ADAMS – BOOKS
Mark Manson