"If companies are headquartered in a location where the belief system is very far from what most people believe, then from their perspective anything centrist is actually right wing because they're so far left. They're so far from the center in San Francisco that anything that they're like, they're they're just failed to maximum left. So that's why that's why, you know, I think you're a centrist." @elonmusk ...

RT Tivra (@WasPraxis)@NickSzabo4 Exactly. Selection aims for payoffs, not truth. A belief system that trades veracity for actual pro-natal behavior and cohesion will always out-compete one that doesn't​Truth is a luxury good; fertility isn’t ...

[Applause] Thank you. Have you ever been marked by something that you don't quite understand but never forgot. Not a scar, not a label, but a sentence, a line someone spoke that kept echoing.Years ago, a palm reader took a child's hand and said, "This is the palm of a serpent. She will bring misfortune." No context, no explanation, just a sentence that became a quiet shadow. A sentence that will slowly turn into a silent blueprint. One that you learn to live with long before questioning it.And that's the th ...