Elliot Shares Links (2022)

Claims analog computing will have high value in the future despite its disadvantages. This may be relevant to CF’s claim that binary/digital epistemology is superior to the analog epistemology of degrees of goodness of ideas. Part 1 is most explaining context and seems reasonable. There will be a part 2 video with more info about what analog computers some startups are currently working on and why.

https://www.tiktok.com/@dani.cant.see/video/7041657495940615470

7 part story about a manager enabling sexual harassment of an employee by a customer.

Those “pick-up artists” on Twitter are so bad. Decent critical commentary.

It’s similar to how Twitter “CritRats” give real Popperians a bad name. They contribute to e.g. lots of Objectivists or mainstream philosophers (like most people studying philosophy in university and their professors) not respecting Popper.

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https://www.tiktok.com/@ahormozi/video/7045818294099561774

Decent theory on one way most people’s psychology is broken (and how to manipulate them).

It intuitively struck me as objectionable and transparently manipulative, but I’m a bad test case, and I find it plausible that it would work well with many people.

It’s also interesting how the creator doesn’t admit he’s advocating manipulation. He presents it more like he’s teaching effective communication.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8EbXsDw/

I disagreed with Gates right away, but didn’t expect such a decisive criticism. I don’t have a full intuition for how bad that problem is.

https://www.learnobjectivism.com/atlas-shrugged-chapter-1

IIRC I’ve received no meaningful feedback on this. I think it’s great work and important. I’m proud of it.

FWIW I do plan to read this eventually, but it’s pretty long so I haven’t gotten around to it yet

One problem might be that it seems like it would take a lot of work to find where in the 100+ hours of videos the “practice activities” can be found. Another issue is that—in contrast to written material—it would be a lot of work to find which parts of which videos are relevant to one’s own problems.

Most videos have some activities that you could practice.

Another issue is that—in contrast to written material—it would be a lot of work to find which parts of which videos are relevant to one’s own problems.

I think you’d have a hard time finding any irrelevant video. They are largely the same stuff I’d teach anyone else – CF stuff and some stuff related to common problems like motivation and procrastination. Did you try some and find that they were irrelevant?

Do you skip much of my written material as irrelevant? I’d be curious what/why, especially if it’s anything recent (last few years).

I think I listened to like 30 minutes of the very first Max tutoring video. You guys were talking about grammar, which is at the very bottom of my to-do list. I also already knew most the grammar stuff that you were discussing with him.

A while ago I listened to the two YesNo philosophy ones. They were relevant, but I don’t recall any talk of “practice activities.”

No, I don’t recall intentionally skipping CF/FI articles. Some of your forum posts aren’t interesting to me, but I don’t think that’s what you are referring to.

What type(s)?

I’m not sure if you recognize that you’re disagreeing with me.

No, I don’t recognize that. I can’t see how what I said contradicts anything you said.

The reason I brought up and taught grammar is because I think it’s generically important and should be a priority for people interested in philosophy. It’s an intentional design decision and topic choice by me, which I would do with ~anyone. It was not a request or choice by the student, nor a customization to cover a weakness of theirs.

If you already know parts of speech, clauses/phrases, sentence diagramming, and the material in Peikoff’s grammar course, you could skip a few bits. But I think you’d still find some things you don’t know in my grammar article. And I’d still think learning grammar trees is worthwhile (those are not standard knowledge that you would already know, though some grammarians already know them), and is a good way to build up to analyzing and making trees for texts.

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https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/non-consumption-of-philosophy

Was rereading this after it was linked today and I really like it.

It can be dangerous for people with revolutionary, rationalist, anti-tradtionalist and arrogant tendencies though, who will infer from it a bunch of changes to their lives that I didn’t actually say (and then either actually do stuff or feel bad about not doing it).

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https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz/video/7051359528771702062

People lie.

15 posts were split to a new topic: TikToker Wearing Makeup

https://www.tiktok.com/@daisyfoko/video/7052109322335341871

ppl are dumb and go affect real world stuff with their stupidity

Really good teaching/coaching stuff. Also the “critical moments” are similar to bottlenecks.