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Cake day: January 12th, 2024

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  • Idk what to write here, i haven’t done so much “180s” but i have shifted a lot of beliefs pretty significantly.

    Actually i think the things i’m proudest of are understanding that in the modern western society, a lot of categories are often used to describe things (such as “democrat”, “republican”) but when you really think about it, these concepts are kinda meaningless. they’re empty significands, i.e. they make you adhere to a group-think even though there’s not much of a content in these concepts.

    the truly important concepts are entirely different ones, such as the four elements in the aristotelian worldview.

    think about it: if you visit a random village in india that has been disconnected from modern civilization for centuries; these people do not think in terms of “democrat” or “republican”; because neither of these things are natural. they do not appear in nature. why do we classify our natural world with them?



  • fusion is a pipe dream at this point; nuclear physics has been so thoroughly researched through CERN and other organizations that it’s utterly unlikely that any big break-throughs are gonna happen anytime in the next 100 years.

    the only optimization that could still happen is in the reactor design, that is, in everything except the nuclear physics part. stuff like how do you build cheaper plumbing through a 1 m thick concrete wall … not really exciting stuff.



  • I should also point out that not all “diseases” (or what is typically considered one) are actually bad.

    Like, autism is typically considered a grave disease that severely impacts people’s lifes very negatively … or so goes the story told by mainstream media.

    in my personal experience, autistic people have both been the most charming, funny, and nice people i’ve ever met. might be because i vibe so well with them because i have severe autism myself, and i can see a lot of value in it that is commonly overlooked by society. i think it’s outright important for society that it exists. still, society sees it as a “disease”.