| Post & message count |
Date |
Author |
Title or First Words |
| The CCP Coronavirus (266) |
2020/03/29 |
curi |
Nurse fired for wearing a mask at work because it could spread fear and panic. Kicker: tons of Americans get health insurance via their work, so he got his health insurance terminated too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=281FTY0OFoU |
| Second-handedness Examples (43) |
2020/03/29 |
curi |
Journalist Kelsey Piper admitted to being second-handed and consequently downplaying the danger of coronavirus:
https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1243301678301888512
> One thing I've struggled with personally - I told my family in early Febr |
| Deplatforming and Fraud (70) |
2020/03/29 |
Anonymous |
VDare, which has had tons of deplatforming issues, bought a castle ⚔️🏰🏹so they could have their conferences in peace.
This article talks about some SPLC guy demonizing VDare.
https://vdare.com/articles/the-fulford-file-splc-thug-micha |
| Social Reality and Real Reality (8) |
2020/03/28 |
curi |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNflR2Ia7Hc
> Tucker: How local leaders failed their cities [re coronavirus]
This is what it looks like to value social reality over real reality. They care more about keeping various social groups happy than abou |
| Open Discussion 2 (2019) (226) |
2020/03/28 |
curi |
Some advantages of forums like FI and curi over chatrooms and IMs:
https://basecamp.com/guides/group-chat-problems
https://basecamp.com/guides/how-we-communicate |
| Rationally Resolving Conflicts of Ideas (199) |
2020/03/27 |
curi |
Information + evolution = knowledge
Evolution adapts information to a purpose.
Knowledge is purpose-having information. (Solving a problem is a purpose.)
Yes? |
| What To Do About Coronavirus (14) |
2020/03/27 |
Andy Dufresne |
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036673v1.full.pdf
Unlike some other papers this one seems to have tested the virus on some surfaces until it wasn't detectable (instead of saying it was detectable after X days but not when it wa |
| Discussion Trees With Example (44) |
2020/03/27 |
curi |
Example tree:
https://curi.us/2301-degrees-of-separation |
| Politics Discussion (145) |
2020/03/27 |
Anonymous |
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPiZSF1Pi0M
>> Tucker: What will higher education look like after coronavirus?
> People may realize unis are a rip off and online education is way more cheap/efficient.
https://nyulocal.com/an-open-letter-to- |
| Anne Discussion (67) |
2020/03/26 |
Anne B |
I wonder if my current plan is too long and complicated. It’s tough for me to judge.
I think it’s doable. The only things I’ve committed to doing at a particular frequency are 1 and 3 once a day, and those don’t take very long each day.
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| Weinstein vs. Veritas (1) |
2020/03/25 |
Freeze |
It did seem like most of the podcast was just Weinstein repeating that he thinks O'Keefe doesn't need to do the things he does to still get the truth, but O'Keefe keeps refuting his claims. Weinstein also seemed to play to some sympathies at some poin |
| Open Discussion: Economics (217) |
2020/03/23 |
Alisa |
#16081
curi said:
> ... giving up or failing should be a moderately big deal. A notable event, not a dime a dozen. It'd be a thing that goes on a list of projects and their outcomes and is considered important data about your life, capabilities, |
| Coronavirus Solution (5) |
2020/03/23 |
Anonymous |
Massive pressure went on the NZ govt to do the Hammer and the Dance. They should have done it earlier. And it is not being implemented until Wed. But they are at least going to do it. And some of the pressure arose from information posted on this blog |
| Slow the coronavirus spread so we can test way more (2) |
2020/03/21 |
curi |
Great Twitter thread on what went wrong with US coronavirus testing:
https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1241027712233410560 |
| Algorithmic Animal Behavior (3) |
2020/03/19 |
curi |
This is a typical example of people's evidence that animals are intelligent:
[Cat Saves Toddler From Falling Down Stairs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcpEnpitzHw) (1min video)
The second comment is notable because it relates to what algorith |
| Eliyahu Goldratt Discussion (8) |
2020/03/17 |
curi |
Learn From Emergencies |
| Comments on Prologue of The Great Influenza (9) |
2020/03/17 |
curi |
I'm near the end of the book. A quote about bias:
> What it came down to was that nearly all investigators believed their own work. If they had found the influenza bacillus in abundance, they believed it caused influenza. If they had not found it, |
| Submit Podcast Questions (127) |
2020/03/13 |
Anonymous |
How could the Coronavirus affect the economy (not just the stock market)? |
| Gaming Discussion (27) |
2020/03/11 |
curi |
#15859 yes he talks about managing stress and mindset being really important for high level speedrunners because they are already good at the game, they can do everything, they've practiced it a lot, they just need to avoid screwing up. tilt and bad m |
| Podcast Discussion (12) |
2020/03/11 |
curi |
The [descript podcast app](https://www.descript.com) looks potentially good. They have automatic transcription (and human-aided for more money) and then they have features like this: *you can edit the transcript and they app will edit the audio*. So y |
| Fuck China (41) |
2020/03/09 |
curi |
Regarding China being awful: I suspect them of lying about coronavirus containment.
https://curi.us/2304-the-wuhan-coronavirus |
| Freeze Discussion (32) |
2020/03/08 |
Freeze |
A thought on "taste" as a linking verb:
Is it only when something has a taste as an attribute of itself, similar to it "being" some way, that it's considered a linking verb?
For example:
* This cake tastes sweet. (linking verb)
* She taste |
| English Language, Analysis & Grammar (19) |
2020/03/08 |
Freeze |
Going to be spending at least 15 minutes per day learning grammar. I analyzed the first part of curi's Fallible Ideas Grammar post here: http://curi.us/2263-freeze-discussion#15815 |
| Discussion About Epistemology with doubtingthomas (2) |
2020/03/08 |
doubtingthomas |
I like the rudeness of showing someone they're wrong. That rudeness is only warranted when you have actually solved a problem and encountered all the common ways in which people when trying to solve that problem go wrong. If on the other hand one hasn |
| Ending Aging (43) |
2020/03/08 |
curi |
#15799 I gave my conclusions more in the second stream about the paper. Nothing really changed in the third. I think the paper is one red flag, but normal, at the same time.
Your hypothetical about no non-trash papers doesn't work b/c the book Endi |