BRAWLADD
57 posts


I know a guy in the army who clinically died
He had a heat stroke during a run and his organs shut off or something.
Before
He'd get angry often, smoked weed, drank all the time, made fun of people, had a hyper masculine personality etc
But when he was resurrected?
He was a high energy dude with thick skin and a tolerance for mishaps that he did not come close to having before.
He became an entirely different human
I have a theory on why this happened, but I'd like to hear your thoughts before I tell it
English

@TheShortBear I share the sentiment and slight optimism. Curious how you manage downside risk in this environment, maintaining optimism but not letting drawdowns get out of control?
English

Not sure people realize just how many traders are in pain.
In 13y I have never seen so many ultra-competent traders realize a massive drawdown.
1/3 minimum of my close network is in true pain.
The mix of good news but opposite reactions, the huge standard deviation moves on both ends (like metals up and then down by sigma 3+), the repeated small cap parabolic moves both premarket and during normal hours…
The list continues but it’s been feeling like quicksand for a bit now.
I mentioned in October last year that I thought the crypto flash crash might have liquidated the risk appetite, indeed I feel like ever since the market truly changed.
That said the losses themselves are a sign of exhaustion in that trend I would think.
I remain optimistic but definitely wish I managed a lot of things way better.
Something to work on for the next 50y.
English

I once talked to someone at a party in college that made one brilliant point after another at the intersection of philosophy of mind and economics.
He was crystal clear in his thinking and he had an elaborate (but not overfit as far as I can tell) model of how society was not made of individuals, but rather of attention streams. Rather than carving the social ontology at the individual, he would break it down in terms of attention types and degrees of signal to noise ratio in verbal actions. He viewed economic activity in terms of attention streams recruiting each other for information processing and resource extraction. And so on. He said he was putting this into writing and emailing professors about it, and I wished him luck. He apparently got into a fight with someone at the group house hosting the party later that night but I never learned what exactly happened.
About a week later I found him at the cafeteria and asked him how his theory was going.
"Oh, that? I was going through a manic episode. I just came back from the hospital, and currently being stabilized with meds. Doctors suspect bipolar II."
Months later I talked to him again over dinner. Fully stabilized and "back to normal", he said he thought his theory was just bullshit coming from a manic mind. And now he was just recited full mainstream neuroscience ideas together with a Dennettian deflationary view of consciousness: "yeah, I guess it's all just my prefrontal cortex organizing sensations" or something to that effect.
I thought his manic self was brilliant; his normal self a complete normie without any interesting point to share.
Last time I saw him was at another party where he said he had stayed up all night on Vyvanse trying to induce a manic episode again. Didn't work out very well. Not that he he hurt himself (to my knowledge), but he just never was able to recreate the mental state of his episode, something which he dearly missed. I do remember he graduated and found a job, and I hope things work out for him.
Part of me is still hoping to see a book on "Economics as Attention Management" on the shelves one day.
English

Are We In a Simulation?
Well, it does work as if we are. So for all intents and purposes you should adopt this mentality!
Life responds to you, primarily your thoughts, beliefs, energy and actions.
Whether or not there's a giant computer doesn't matter; simulation can simply be an allegory for how this reality operates.
As such, we can work with this simulation to create the reality that we desire, and improve our lives. Becoming conscious is the goal.
Then, work to understand WHY we are in this "simulation", and what our aims should be...
English

Closing Guesses at 9pm.
Take a 2nd guess if you want!
Cody 🇺🇸@OddStockTrader
Vegas... Guess The Cost! $50 in $APX to who gets it exact first. After Taxes..
English

@american_navajo @Rosnell13713128 @FOX10Phoenix @abc15 That’s what I saw in AZ. Haze disappeared leaving the light by itself, then the light disappeared. Then the haze briefly appeared again and it was gone
English

@Rosnell13713128 @FOX10Phoenix @abc15 Southeastern Utah, I saw it also…
Did you see the part after it disappeared, a few seconds later ONLY the glowing Haze reappeared?
The middle brighter part of that light did not reappear, that freaked me out… because it seem to “Pop” or explode
English

Did anyone else see this strange light flying in the sky tonight? It flew across our backyard, the light disappeared then reappeared only showing the front half of the light and suddenly vanished. #Phx #Arizona #ufo #weird #aliens #flyingsaucer #raresighting @FOX10Phoenix @abc15
English

@love_walflower I saw it. Very clear sky tonight. It moved slowly and had a haze around it. Then the haze faded out and was just the light by itself. Then the light disappeared. The haze came back for a second and disappeared again and I didn’t see it again
English

Anyone else see this weird light in Phoenix and does anyone know what it is? #UFO #phoenix #phoenixlights
English

@kryzia_marie A weekend away with mdma a few times a year can do wonders for a marriage
English













