ChuckTrades

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology. Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested. Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel. Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

You can go on YouTube and listen to interviews of people who lived in the Victorian age that were recorded in the 50s, 60s, and even 70s. Each and every one of them speaks with a level of eloquence that we would associate with the most intelligent and educated men today. It's almost impossible listening to even ordinary people from a century ago and not conclude that society as a whole is regressing. Technology is improving. We, on the other hand, are going backward.

These studies are always fascinating to me. The internet has long suspected that low testosterone was a root cause of many societal problems. The mainstream doctors, academics, and journalists dismissed that thesis as a wacky, far-right conspiracy with no merit. The science is now undeniable though. Men with low testosterone are much more likely to go with the crowd and refrain from standing up for the right thing, rather than the popular thing. Quite literally, if we could increase the average testosterone levels in America, we could address a number of issues. The internet has known this for a long time. The wisdom of crowds is a real thing. Eventually the “experts” will learn to listen to the people.

@aaronjmars Legend

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit - then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max - temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges hyperstitions.

@varrock Liberals and self reflection?

7 things every kid needs to hear: 1. I love you 2. I’m proud of you 3. I’m sorry 4. I forgive you 5. I’m listening 6. Communism has failed every time it was tried 7. You’ve got what it takes

⚡️What the study is actually measuring is the extent to which the mobile internet has been damaging human cognition at scale. Two weeks without it produces improvements that rival or exceed clinical interventions. Which means the baseline state most people are in is significantly impaired compared to what their brain is capable of. The impairment is being actively caused by continuous exposure to the device in their pocket. This is not a surprising finding if you think about it mechanically. The human attention system evolved to handle environmental stimuli at roughly the rate the environment produced them. The mobile internet delivers novel stimuli at a rate that is orders of magnitude higher than anything the attention system was built for. Continuous exposure to that rate trains the brain to expect constant novelty, to switch context rapidly, to disengage from any stimulus that doesn’t produce an immediate reward. That pattern is literally the opposite of sustained attention. So of course sustained attention collapses when you use mobile internet heavily. That’s exactly what would happen mechanically. The mental health finding follows from the attention finding but also has its own dynamics. Mobile internet is an anxiety delivery system in the literal sense. Every notification is a small dose of uncertainty about what’s on the other side. The cumulative effect of hundreds of those per day, every day, for years, is chronic activation of the threat detection system. That chronic activation shows up clinically as anxiety and depression. Remove the source and those symptoms reduce. The finding that mobile internet blocking outperformed antidepressants is the part that will be ignored most completely because it has massive implications. If the primary driver of mental health decline in the developed world is a specific environmental exposure, then the entire mental health treatment industry is operating downstream of the actual cause. Billions of dollars spent treating symptoms that are being continuously recreated by a device everyone carries. The honest intervention would be to change the exposure. But that’s unprofitable, unpopular, and unenforceable. So the treatment industry will continue growing while the cause goes unaddressed. The deeper thing the study hints at but doesn’t state directly is that the last fifteen years of human cognition has been a mass experiment with no control group. Everyone on the planet has been simultaneously exposed to the same novel stimulus at scale. We have no idea what humans would be like right now if mobile internet had never existed. We only have the before and after, and the after is clearly worse on multiple measurable dimensions. Attention down. Mental health down. Reading comprehension down. Memory down. Focus down. All of these measurable declines track the adoption curve of the smartphone.

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains That was 6 weeks. I'm going a full year.

I’m very offered a very similar explanation on here many times! The fact is that enough people defect under communism that in order to make it work you have to become increasingly authoritarian, which of course pushes more people away. Communism is the ultimate, “if everyone would just.” But since everyone isn’t going to “just,” you either have to tolerate some of the people in society developing an alternative, illegal market economy, or you have to force people to do what you want, even though some of them really, really don’t like it.

your current brain state is a result of all the things you were told as you were growing up. and this program keeps running until you choose to disrupt it. that’s why you need to develop loving, uplifting and gentle self-talk and see yourself as a winner repeatedly until you create a new program

@tanik_tr Poppycock

Game of Thrones yazarı George R. R. Martin: 'Jaime Lannister ile Aragorn kılıç savaşında karşıya gelse dövüşü Jaime rahat kazanır.'

I see Victor and Christina both as incredible displays of humanity at its finest You only see race and gender to feed your braindead political views exactly like far right racists We are not the same

Pilot Victor Glover has 3000+ hrs in 40 aircraft and 400+ carrier landings. Mission Specialist Christina Hammond has 300+ days in space as a flight engineer on the ISS. To say they are on the Artemis crew bc of “DEI” and not bc of their merit is both racist and sexist.

@animeposts Time to rumble

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@om_patel5 Sick

THIS GUY GOT TIRED OF MANAGING AI AGENTS THROUGH TERMINALS AND DASHBOARDS SO HE BUILT THEM AN RPG WORLD 5 agents and each one has a pixel character, a station, and they actually walk around the space when enough unresolved issues pile up, the agents walk to a meeting point and hold a council session. four different models debating what to do next, not scripted. each one reads the live system state independently. in one session an agent pushed for cold outreach to close leads at 2am. another one said that's a terrible look for an autonomous system contacting strangers while the operator sleeps. they ended up pivoting to an inbound strategy that none of them originally proposed. single HTML file, node bridge, and phaser. runs on a Mac Mini. instead of reading logs and checking dashboards you just watch your little pixel agents walk around and talk to each other this is the most creative way i've seen anyone manage AI agents so far

The average Claude user be like

POV: Banks and hedge funds watching you draw lines on TradingView thinking you’ll be a millionaire.

Tapping the sign

Imagine a world where hard work is rewarded, truth and justice prevail in courtrooms, the government doesn’t steal your labor by debasing the currency, bureaucrats aren’t captured by corporations, and our taxes go toward critical infrastructure instead of wars overseas.

Ah yes, Tolkien, who wrote The Lord of the Rings, which has sold over 150 million copies, and The Hobbit which has sold another 100 million (ranking them 2nd and 3rd respectively in top-selling novels of all time), who created over 14 distinct languages and alphabets for Middle-earth before writing his novels, who was fluent in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Gothic, Greek, Italian, Latin, Lombardic, Middle/Old English, Old Norse, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh, who, while serving in WWI, developed a secret code to update his wife about his location to bypass British army mail censorship, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature….. Yes, surely, he is a weak thinker.