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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • and with enough money I don’t care.

    Most people are like you.

    Which is precisely why humanity will be just another of many dead end evolutionary cul-de-sacs in Earth’s natural history.

    I’ve come to peace with that, but this is a nice microcosm of the core reason. We can do better, we know better, but at the end of the day, almost all of us will just take the animalistic dopamine rush of winning.

    Live together or die alone. We choose the second one like breathing.

    If most humans were like Kempf (we’re not), we’d actually have a chance.




  • There is a paradox of confidence.

    The people most confident in their competence tend to be the least competent in practice.

    The Dunning–Kruger effect.

    Self-cheerleaders tend to be morons, the most intelligent people by their nature tend to second guess their own abilities. Idiots just stroll through life taking whatever credit they can grab.

    “The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”

    -Socrates

    "Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.’

    -Donald Trump

    See the difference? By genuinely doubting, aka examining your abilities, you are in more competent company.