Some beliefs:

• 99.998% of the informational world runs on signaling theory
  • You included.
  • See: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman & the Diary of an Oxygen Thief series by Anonymous
• People should learn to microdose fiction.
  • Everyone is insane in their own way. America has always been a national fantasyland. The only difference is most people pretend they are rational. See: Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen
  • Insanity and faith are two sides of the same coin. See: Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
  • There are certain books that should not be read. I would never encourage someone to read No Longer Human, Earthlings, or similar.
• People are absurdly imitative. See: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard
  • Fundamentally, we are constructs of information. The way we consume information determines who and what we are. See: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  • People will rapidly regress to the mean as a result of AI and online panopticons. The only real way to stave off the decay will be old works of art (the ones with dense information).
  • Certain books distill knowledge that someone spent a lifetime acquiring. Reading them is a way of extending your own life. See: On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
• I think death is postponable and that there is a central moral imperative to work on the problem
• Elite universities give the symptom of knowledge
  • The symptom is sometimes enough to bring about the illness in the patient. See: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (ending)
  • There is an incredible amount to learn from the sickest people in the world.
• Not only are we irrational, we are tiny specks against the cosmic backdrop of the world with lossy tape recorders (memory).
  • Rationality, understanding, self, recollection are all jokes. Consequently as many goals present to be impossible, they are possible. See: Solaris by Stanisław Lem