So instead of feeling slightly jealous toward billionaires and then moving on with life like the rest of us. Anatoly feels extremely jealous that he can't just forget in three seconds and has to insult everyone else for having an emotion to prove that he himself has only positive feelings.
So Putin, thinks Trump, Biden, Xi, his driver and Trump’s hairstylist all have the same information, knowledge of everything as him. And they, as a group, also share the internal worldviews as him. But he goes on to lecture Trump about things anyway because that’s his special interest.
That’s what lacking theory of mind means.
Hope Anatoly meets even more high-IQ people with an even wider range of personalities. Because the “brain fog” metaphor to dilute the self-claim of being too high IQ as an attempt to fake humility is too on the nose for anyone who has just slightly more experience outside of academia.
Also I didn’t study research discipline so I didn’t know what “half a standard deviation” of the IQ number was. So I asked ChatGPT and it said 107. SF seems to be below my public high-grade-entrance-exam high school.
Gonna put some milk in the coffee too.
Ordering another ground coffee pack because I will try coffee one more time. It's too delicious.
Many people feel disturbed because the NY mayor candidate – the socialist – keeps smiling at everyone and everything. But it's not that strange. I know many optimistic people who always strive for the better future no matter what hardship they go through.
So when they quit a field they spend effort and resources on. Instead of drowning themselves in defeat and sadness, they say to treat life as a lesson, not as a punishment. When their business go bad, they philosophize “I'm a sufferer of optimism. But optimism is still better than defeat.”
And what's wrong with optimism? Isn't it the most positive trait of all? And they would say “I understand reality so this is not naive optimisim”.
For you see. If I don't feel sadness, how can I know which part of my passion was unsuitable for me? If I don't look back at how I handle money and feel defeat, how can I take better responsibility for my own finance decisions? Optimism too quickly without feeling defeat or sadness is a way to avoid these “negative” emotions because you are too scared for them to happen at all. So you don't have to feel guilt or shame.
So you reverse what the smiling is for. You know what emotion the person is terrified to face themselves with.
Domestic books are hella expensive these days. It was 5k for a comic book when I was a kid. The rest is still usual trash though.
I’m having to pay taxes for my books being shipped in. And I didn’t even buy them. I think they have some new customs rules. So annoying
This is really affecting my plan to buy a lot of physical books once I have a house. Now that Bookdepository is already over and I haven’t found a new reliable way to buy books. This extra fee is one more problem for my dream.
Gonna ask my parents to ship back the carton box though.
Still can't find them. I'm going to sleep now. Goodnight Marten.
This house is crap. Now the washing machine is broken.