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== Chronological List of Morals from X ==
=== 2009 ===
* Bad Theory is overblown. Good theory is a remaining threat to orderly science. But if you fear disruption, run the malware. Thx.
=== 2010 ===
* Inability to put your $%#* pants on leads to Klein 4-group multiplication table. Go failure.
=== 2017 ===
* When a scientist removes talk of softness/ethics from discussion, you can't infer he/she isn't laser focused on grace/ethics/decency.
=== 2018 ===
* There are ''many'' glass ceilings. If you’ve hit one, know there are others.
* it’s the wise & kind G-ds we make that fail us.
=== 2019 ===
* Nuance can flip ''everything''.
* don’t screw yourself out of magic.
* Never go full neurotypical.
* Don’t give up on each other easily. Social media is weird. Lunch where possible.
=== 2020 ===
* remember whoever it turns out was behind [[Jeffrey_Epstein|Epstein]], it wasn’t “The Americans” or “the Jews”. US Jews were also both outspoken & tiptoeing around this mess for 15Yrs. [[Jeffrey_Epstein|Epstein]] was an obvious cancer. But cancers are treatable. It is the US press misdirection that’s metastatic.
* don’t be afraid to be more disagreeable for your kids with schools, hospitals and other instutions. You may be treated by the instution as a crazy person. But deep down they know why you are doing it and they respect your love for your family. And your children deserve it.
* you aren’t losing your mind just because you‘re the only one who remembers or believes something. You may be crazy, but that isn’t a legitimate argument on its own. The 🌎 can still seem to forget things in the age of Google & you may be one of the only ones who remember.
* if you are saying something disruptive, It may be that relentless accounts personally attacking you semi-anonymously are motivated by simple self-preservation of an institution:
* just because someone is trying to sell you something doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider it.
* Institutions are doing you a favor by whittling down the set of possible heroes. Ask yourself:</br>FEAR: who frightens me?</br>UNCERTAINTY: who is unpredictable?</br>DOUBT: who lives under a cloud of questions particularly with respect to motive.</br>Then ask: is there a FUD campaign?
* Even a ''total'' scoundrel may at times have something valuable to say. When someone tells you: “You should ''never'' listen to ''anything'' that person says! Don’t listen. Not a good look!” that is the dead giveaway. There is no soul on earth who that fits. Not a single one.
* Learn to notice accounts that overuse ridicule. An account that overuses LMAO, ROTFL, meh, ha ha, loser, etc, etc, is trying to bypass your rational mind to get at your evolutionary programming to avoid expulsion from society.</br>Learn to notice the strategy working, and laugh. 🙏
* We appear to be caught in loops of our own creation. If so, conventional moves will continue to produce this cycling around the drain. It is time to consider more exotic moves to pull ourselves out.</br>We can no longer afford to fill the world w/ sheep, NPCs & followers.</br>🙏
* However you voted, I have no right to judge you on your vote.</br>Be generous of spirit. Let’s come back together and not waste another four years getting farther away from our best selves by arguing like fools while the CCP and others rivals watch us undo ourselves fighting.
* Don't fall for this when someone like Trump celebrates victory prematurely. This is a well known technique that preys on people not wanting to go backwards and have to undo things. Like Maradona, Trump may see it as just part of the game working on very agreeable people...
* disbelieve ''both''.
=== 2021 ===
* There is a ''large'' group of obsessional hater accounts that make names for themselves by 'protecting' you from folks you know well who are critical of institutions and who have put 1000s of hours of their thoughts into the public arena. Don't be fooled by would-be saviors.
* A little Feynman is a dangerous thing.
* we should synthesize a new ruler (numeraire) XXX to measure USD/XXX & BTC/XXX separately as institutions tied most directly to USD may strongly co-move in ways that disguise the dangers when a (mis)managed USD ultimately becomes the main story. Don’t let the Dollar hide.
* Always Meet Your Heroes. Just choose them wisely.
* if you take UFOs seriously but not the risk of new physics, you aren’t thinking clearly.</br>Just think about it. 🙏
* whoever constructs [[CPI]] and GDP numbers in a dynamic economy is in a position to fake higher growth and lower inflation if they are also in a position to stop the field from debating methodological advances that would restrict the freedom to make up index number recipes. 🙏
* Numeraire is an illusion. They are all just reference frames, and none of them have the properties of a fixed Aether. In a dynamic world the search for a fixed store-of-value is a quixotic quest destined for failure. Crypto is the post-Newtonian money, showing us this.
* get us US scientists our own [[UAP|US UAP data]]. Now.
* [[Gauge_Theory|Gauge Theory]] fixes this intellectual corruption problem of economic imperialism, and #btc, blockchains and Crypto can help.
* take care of the innovators you task to make you wealthy & secure. Particularly the heterodox leaders that won’t always get along with others. Then get out of the way w the social engineering. Share the STEM benefits with your NATO allies before giving them to your rivals.
* even if you see the lies and the danger they represent, you have every right to decouple that from relative risk assessment and to take vaccines despite the sales job.</br>Most good things are oversold, perversely incentivized, and have disguised risks and costs to them.
* the size of the lying you can spot isn’t necessarily the size of what is being smuggled.</br>It’s ok to vaccinate, even if vaccines are at times needlessly & foolishly oversold with ham-fisted sanctimony and authoritarian bullshit that makes you puke. Separate issues.
* if you want to talk about Ivermectin vs vaccines, don’t ''ever'' pull that “Horse DeWormer” shaming idiocy if you want independent people to vaccinate. You just look like hate filled idiots. Our precious vaccines come from self experimentation.</br>Pro-Vaccine IS Pro-Puss.</br>🙏
* There never really was an IDW. But whatever there was isn't in such bad shape. There are real divisions in the group to be sure, but most of them aren't so severe. Including, in my opinion, Bret & Sam. So far it's limited to one topic. Not perfect, but not too bad either..
* Stop looking for no-brainer summations.
* much of this 'ambiguity' is serving the few.
* there’s (almost) no diversity on Earth. We are all in one giant experiment now with shared fate. Whatever happens in Vegas (or Wuhan or Chernobyl
) won’t stay there anymore.</br>It is past time to diversify off this sphere before it’s too late.
* Scientists are central to a modern nation on every level. Only a 3rd rate kleptocracy chisels on compensation and insulation of STEM professionals. The deliberate use by NSF of PRC labor (student and otherwise) to hold down US wages is an advanced form of academic madness.
* you have a right to demand what economists are actually measuring as Cost-Of-Living W/O abuse for asking.
* Kids >>> [[Sources_and_Methods|S & M]].
=== 2022 ===
* Never sell your soul for a tote-bag and Carl Kasell’s voice on your home answering machine message.
* it’s really really really hard to fake a field. Economic Index Numbers like [[CPI]] are not real numbers. They are naturally group-valued ''FIELDS'' that would be nearly impossible to fake and manipulate.</br>The ''entire'' subject is off. [[Peer_Review|Peer review]] won’t help. 🙏
* if you want a better model of Trump Supporters try this one: they prefer idiosyncratic lying/spin/distortion by a gadfly as an antidote to coordinated credentialed institutional polished lying with amazing production values. Further, they don’t think ''anyone'' offers truth.</br>That.🙏
* When you want to know why dissenting democrats are all over Right wing media, it is largely about blackballing all those who would disassemble the house narrative and strategies of the institutions. Legacy media is by and ''for'' institutions now. That’s why it seems insane.
* I’d be rather careful exchanging a correct and permanently defensible ethical position for a transient optical victory using illegal aliens as pawns against a cynical opponent that will likely adapt to a new opportunity to play the immigration optics game right back atcha.
* The COVID narrative was the GIN. The destruction of all credentialed dissenters was the [[The_Distributed_Idea_Suppression_Complex_(The_DISC)|DISC]]. Now you know.
* be very careful celebrating success that you don’t understand for its own sake.
* If you enjoy the pain from hurting other named people, you are generally going to find a way to explain that what you are doing is for the good of the world. That is, ''every'' sadist can find an excuse between “This is normal.” and “I do it for society. Thank me later.”
* Excuses work because they muddy the water of abuse. The above excuses are appropriated from contexts where they make sense. But most internet critics are nothing of the kind. A criticism helps us course-correct. A stalker doesn’t want you to improve. They want anguish.
* A lot of what is visible on Twitter hides behavior offsite, and even offline. An apparent Twitter critic may be real-life stalker/sadist. There‘s no way to understand what is happening to public figures like @elonmusk by just looking at Twitter. This is just surface.
* Many people on Twitter feel that the very rich on the site have so much money that they never need to worry about anything. This is close to being the dumbest idea ever.</br>Remember: Any billionaire with a child they love is vulnerable to any psycho with an opportunity.
* [[Free_Speech|Free speech]] is about restraining ourselves w/ culture so that we don’t need rules to tell us what we can say. It’s NOT a free-for-all for sadists. [[Free_Speech|Free speech]] would NEVER develop in a culture in which Mores were not strong, shared and effective in prohibiting sociopathy.</br>If you want to be a critic, a journalist, a comedian, or even a troll, develop a code of ethics. Don’t hybridize w/ abuse. Check in w/ yourself as to whether you’re really working out abuse, rage, envy or status issues. Try to minimize unnecessary damage to others.
=== 2023 ===
* pay attention to things that have not yet become concrete. Normal people, for reasons that remain opaque, cannot consider outcomes that have never before happened.
* China already knows what we are doing by and large. American science is built on a model: they supply highly reliable workers, we supply our asymmetric scientific advantages born of our freedom. Don’t hate the PRC and their students. The US is always giving away the store.
* Protect less or succeed more. 🙏
* Think carefully whether you wish to think carefully. It may be a serious mistake. There is good reason to think we will not think carefully until there is a spectacular close call. And even then it may not be enough. Stare at reality at your own peril. And good luck.
* Sketchy culture leave the impression that the science is sketchy. NO!! It’s the ''culture'' not the ''theory'' that is ‘sketch’. That is why we need to call out the unethical behavior that is undermining support and understanding of fundamental physics.
=== 2024 ===
* Don't be an ass.
* Universities are neither fully failed in 2024, nor successful. There is serious rot that is growing and eating away at them, but there are still many good researchers and scholars trapped inside, who are being driven to silence, in order to hold onto their remaining zone of scholarship and research “autonomy”.
* those with the clearest Schelling points need to get a room and have one debate, so that the rest of us with less clarity can book a stadium and have a second discussion. But we need to stop mixing up the two explorations.</br>This wasn’t about abortion after all. It was about political clarity: its benefits, its dangers and its inability to represent the majority of us who lack it.
* Learn how to be a [[Responsible_Conspiracy_Theorizing|responsible conspiracy theorist]]. There are no lizard people. But there are sure a lot of back channels and algorithms you know nothing about.
* The problem holding us back from a Theory of everything is ''Classical'', and not Quantum. The quantum comes as desert after classical compatibility. It’s not the main issue. A red herring that throws us off following the scent. It’s a distraction that should have fooled almost no one who was thinking for his or her self.
=== 2025 ===
* you can't just fire people and break things with a government and a nuclear superpower with many non-market functions the way in which you can with a for-profit company you just bought. You can somewhat. But there are limits to the analogy.
* The private sector isn't magic. You can't just give the private sector final say on whatever is valuable. You can do that only if the thing in question is in the category of standard goods and services. But it doesn't work for an entire category of well known market failures. Like basic research in science.
* beware analogies when playing with thermonuclear military capabilities. There is no real intuition pump. Doesn’t exist.
* focus on the cover story. Not the memes. Go after the press first. Figure out exactly who is stopping the fund from being dissected. Focus on the non reporting. This is what [[Anti-Interesting|Anti-Interesting]] is all about. Use it.
* Not everyone is an ignorant idiot just because they think your community is 40+ years stalled groupthinking this exact way. I don’t think you are ignorant or stupid. I don’t think you are pseudoscientists. Or grifters. Or any of that. I just think you are wrong in your total approach. That’s just science. The quantum gravity crowd has demanded a victory parade for 40+ years over all other approaches while it fails to launch year after year after year. That is not science. I’m sorry. I don’t make that rule.
* Physics when done well and right, is very very dangerous after all. And I want us to get back to doing physics that will go way beyond [[Albert_Einstein|Einstein]]. Even the kind that goes boom:đŸ’„


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