was just laughing at a tweet (yes actually out loud, already weird) and spontaneously crossed over into crying for no reason. pregnancy amirite

even if I believed all that — have you considered that it feels fucking terrible

there is a Tesla Diner?? what business has he NOT started

backyard relaxation

go ahead, drink hose water out of an old Play-Doh cup. see if I care. show those microplastics who is boss

discovery: you're not supposed to take Pepto-Bismol while pregnant huh, why? because the active ingredient is a salicylate isn't that the same type of active ingredient as aspirin, which is routinely recommended to pregnant women? ...yes admittedly the dosage is different. but ugh

- can't keep anything down - so I can't take my meds b/c I will just vomit them back up - so I won't be able to sleep because that's what happens when I miss a dose - which will be great for the healing process, I'm sure

so... TIFU

the thing about EA, and rationalists in general, and the offshoots — high openness optimizes *against* false negatives, meaning bizarre-sounding ideas that turn out to have value. high openness evaluates those ideas seriously despite their odd packaging this is a genuine tradeoff! you get false positives instead however: doing the opposite also entails a genuine tradeoff. scrupulously excluding the false positives means you will miss the false negatives hence it is healthy for there to be various cultures with different epistemic approaches to sift through all the ideas out there

various small cabals that are all constantly beefing with each other *do* control the world