Your Ability To Describe The World Affects How You Think About It. If The Language And Idioms You Know

The cool thing about doing math professionally is that you can work anywhere - on your walks, in the shower, as you fall asleep - just by rotating problems in your head. What's not so cool is that this drives you insane

don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that

The Fertile Crescent

If you can read this post, you have voided your mind's warranty.

I fucking love snowclones. They are resilient. They happen everywhere. You can enjoy them. Snowclones are the best.

I fucking love dandelions. They are resilient. They grow everywhere. You can eat them. Dandelions are the best.

When my mind hands me a small thought, I can ask “Is this true?” and my mind will answer “Good question, let’s go over three thousand different rationality techniques and see what answer each of them gives.

When my mind hands me a big thought, I ask "Is this true?” and my mind just answers “It better be, m——–r, cause this is how you’re gonna be thinking about everything from now on.”

very convenient how the definition of “cultural christianity” includes everything and everyone when they’re assigning it to you but magically shrinks as soon as you try to criticize it

I saw a man this morning going from tree to tree, painstakingly painting each leaf of every tree yellow, red, and gold, one by one. I always wondered how they got that way.

doomy doomy doomy doom doom doom the end