it does suggest that "friendship" is a rare and serendipitous thing
why should anyone be friends with anyone else? what do they get out of it?
maybe everyone else has, like, peripheral ports and protocols that make it click
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.”
it's a shame you can't Cool, Silent, and Mysterious your way to being very close to people. we are unfortunately going to have to embarrass ourselves for this
people should learn more history so that when it comes time to make comparisons it’s not Everything Is Transatlantic Slavery Or The Holocaust
the sun won't consume the earth for another 5-7 billion years.. plenty of time to chill (chills for 5-7 billion years) ah - the sun!!
I had to exit via one of those "Emergency exit only — alarm will sound" doors (boring story; won't relay), and there was no alarm! What else are THEY lying to us about?
I love writing. I LOVE WRITING. THE ART OF ALL ARTS.
way more meta than you, OP. all jobs involve a cartesian plane. all thought/philosophy is math. even waiting tables is math. mathematicians have simply formalized the domain by minting and using the appropriate symbols. qed
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
Some slides we made in class this week. Histology's been treating me well.
Ominous positivity