SPRINGFIELD: I’m on the ground investigating for IM—1776. Burned-out and wrecked cars are cluttering local towing companies’ lots. According to the company owners, half of their lots are filled with cars wrecked by Haitians. 🧵

Be careful what you incentivize for. The outcome may not be as intended.

Some consulting firm is about to make a few million dollars to conclude "hundreds of millions would starve" LOL

Information is being conveyed.

We don't deserve dogs.

This train has no brakes. Plan and prepare accordingly.

If you watch closely enough, there's brief moment of realization at the end of this video (:23 sec) where this young woman recognizes that she may have traded her soul for money.

My newly typeset edition of Schopenhauer's The Wisdom of Life - Counsels & Maxims, is now available for purchase. (*amazog link below) I've been burned too many times when buying classics off Amaxon, for example: So I've taken matters into my own hands and redesigned this

John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will

Sure things are crazy now, but have you considered how crazy they will be two months from now?

Many of the issues we face today have been faced by humanity countless times before, often under much more dire circumstances. The details vary, but the challenges tend to be very similar.