I hate it when mental illnesses have physical symptoms. Stay in your damn lane.

There are only two industries left in America: gambling and fraud. Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud. The stock market looks like gambling, but it's actually fraud.

Refusing to do something because you're afraid of failing and embarrassing yourself is actually way more embarrassing than failing. That's the trick to overcoming it.

#define trust_me_bro const_cast

The problem with trying to get enough sleep is that, from no sleep to 8 hours of sleep, there are the following stages:
- Non-functional
- Fine
- Miserable
- Somehow more tired

Something that made it difficult to seek out an #autism diagnosis was growing up in an era of Autism Speaks putting commercials on national television saying that it ruins the parents' lives.

They never said it directly, but the message that my parents would be better off if I was dead was clear.

At the rate things are going, "data center raider" is going to become a viable career path.

This framework holds up well and handles new obscenities, instead of relying on an arbitrary list of words. Likewise, it can be used to analyze intent.

I hope this helps.

If you see a comedian making a joke with a slur in it that doesn't offend anyone, that joke was focus-tested to hell by a team to narrow in on the exact levels of acceptability and has the same work done in the build-up to that slur.

You can't replicate the work of that team.

Slurs are a special case in that, if you are not a member of the affected group, it's abusive, regardless of intent.

5. Idiopathic, where the profanity is more of a sound that you make and has little-to-no bearing on the actual meanings of the word. The purpose of this is to denote a casual environment and make people around you feel more comfortable. However, this still requires knowing the audience.

4. Dysphemic, the opposite of a euphemism, where you are being deliberately rude of vulgar to make a point. This also requires knowing your audience.

3. Emphatic, where you are basically using the profanity in place of the word "really" or "very." This can be OK if what follows next merits attention being drawn to it in this way, but it also requires knowing your audience.

2. Cathartic, where the profanity comes about as a way of dealing with an extreme feeling, such as joy or pain. This is OK only if it is proportionate to the feeling and this also requires knowing the audience.

1. Abusive, where you are using the profanity to hurt another person. This is always bad.

I have a framework for what constitutes profanity that I think it pretty robust. First, you have to understand that there are 5 different forms of profanity, and their context for whether or not they are OK.

Exonyms are so weird. Why do we not listen to what countries call themselves?

Of course. My ethics are Kantian and consequentialist.

If I can replicate their behaviors with simpler axioms with statistically significant predictive accuracy, the nuance is irrelevant.

Hard work killing John Calvin would be delightfully ironic.

Have you considered John Calvin?

And unlike a proper prisoner's dilemma, all squares but double-cooperate have the same penalty for everyone.

The truth is that #anxiety about these things is the optimal strategy for this prisoner's dilemma that we're stuck in. If everyone had our strategy. It would be solved.

Unfortunately, we're locked in with people who want to cause harm and think that they are exempt from the outcome.

There's a wave of new cases of #anxiety, but I think this ignores the fact that there are very good and valid reasons for this new anxiety. Climate change and WW3 are very real apocalypse-level threats.

This is fundamentally different from my anxiety about whether or not I locked the front door.

It's getting harder and harder to escape the conclusion that not sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure is an ethical failing.

One thing I've noticed is that we commoners have to fight tooth and nail to get privacy by encryption, which is continuously undermined by Congress. Meanwhile, the Epstein files are over Gmail with no consequences.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

None of the people who say this have a hidden room in their home that can only be accessed by pulling a single book from a bookshelf.

If anyone says that money can't buy happiness, the correct response is, "Then give me your money, because you are spending it wrong."

Rejection hypersensitivity is my least-favorite part my #AuDHD.

It also makes job-hunting very painful in a literal sense.