Mark Changizi
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Philosopher scientist https://t.co/Bm8ym5RB7L — Books like VISION REVOLUTION, HARNESSED, EXPRESSLY HUMAN — Vino Optics Vein Finder Glasses — Iranian-American 🇮🇷
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The scene in tens of millions of Iranian households in learning Khamenei is dead, including every Iranian you know. This is unrestrained overwhelming joy, something you rarely fully see on Earth. I can’t stop watching. It’s my wife and me. It’s my cousin and her husband. It’s my niece and her husband. It’s every Iranian family. And the emotion is mind-blowing, even as a researcher that has written books on it. 💔
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Douglas Murray’s Douglas Murray point to Dave Smith about “Have you been there” was misunderstood. The point is not that armchair positions are necessarily bad. You CAN armchair that targeting and kidnapping 1000+ civilians is evil. You CANNOT armchair about the massively complex issues involved in carrying out an urban war against terrorists hiding behind civilians. As I said in December of 2023… “I find it amazing that folks who — sitting in their armchairs — failed at their ability to make a judgment in terms of how to think about 10/7 itself. They failed. This was a very simple armchair task. They failed, but yet they have the armchair capacity to judge every little step that Israel is making. Of course, they're not judging every little step that Israel's making. They made a judgment by the end of day 10/7 that, whatever Israel does, they are intrinsically genocidal. That is their position. It didn't matter what Israel did after that.” -- Moment 441, Dec 4, 2023
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Our cries should be, “You’re wrong because X,” not, “Hey employer, fire him.” (1) We shouldn’t act like them. Not even a little. (2) It’s censorship, totalitarian-esque, and wrong (3) It’s counterproductive— we want their voice heard, so as to ridicule it (4) As they get more humiliated, they’ll hopefully get fired — but without us acting like little Leftist bitches reporting them
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Why we should humiliate, not cancel, those who publicly reveled in Charlie Kirk’s murder. Moment 525
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I was warning about the “Woke Right” years before the term existed — I called them the “Far Conspiracy Theory Right.” The “Woke Right” term only came into usage around 2024. I began battling conspiracy thinking by Spring 2020, right as the Plandemic crowd exploded in May. They hated me instantly: I had been out in front against lockdowns since early March, but refused to blame it all on a multidecade cabal plot for enslavement, Great Reset, depopulation or all the other absurdities they claimed. By 2022, in Science Moment 234 (“Witches and the tendency to interpret emergent phenomena as designed by intent”) — below — I called this mindset out as one of the greatest dangers to societies — because if you can’t reason about large-scale complex systems, you’re susceptible to massive overfitting, and that invariably leads to the most worked-out (but total bullshit) narratives, which almost always land on the Jews as the fictional cabal. When you see crazy rising in your community, call it out BEFORE it becomes a cancer.
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The Far Left and Far Right are both conspiracy theory driven, but are opposites. —— The Far Left are what I call “God-followers”: The Far Left tends to believe great GOODNESS in the world is only due to the actions of a centralized cabal — the “God Cabal” — intentionally pushing goodness on the world through smart top-down policies and interventions. In the absence of these policies, the world would mostly be bad. Free markets and free expression, each which works via decentralized mechanisms, are bad, and any good coming from them is due to the policies of the God Cabal. For Covid, the good that occurred was due to their interventions. In conflicts between strong and weak, while the world is by and large bad (outside of the God Cabal), the least bad are those who are weak, with the least agency. These are the “victims” that the Far Left sides with. For 9/11 the weak were the Islamists, and so the U.S. must have deserved it. For 10/7, the weak were again the Islamists, and so Israel deserved it. —— The Far-Right are what I call “Demon-Battlers”: The Far Right, on the other hand, tends to believe great BADNESS in the world is only due to the actions of a centralized cabal — the “Demon Cabal” — intentionally pushing evil on the world through sophisticated top-down subversive manipulation. In the absence of these evil influences, the world would mostly be good. Truly free markets and free expression, each which works via decentralized mechanisms, are good, and any bad coming from them is due to the manipulations of the Demon Cabal (which does happen a lot). For Covid, the bad that occurred was because the Demon Cabal engineered the whole thing. Not just the interventions, but the emergency itself, the virus (if there even are viruses), etc. And it was engineered so as to do a Great Reset, put chips in us, depopulate, etc. In conflicts between strong and weak, while the world is by and large good, the least good are those who are strong, with the most agency. These are the oppressors that are enjoined with or being manipulated by the Demon Cabal. For 9/11 the strong was the U.S., which itself — controlled by the Demon Cabal — brought the towers down. For 10/7 the strong was Israel, which itself massacred Israeli’s civilians (or perhaps there wasn’t a massacre at all), under the influence of the Demon Cabal. Point here is that we tend to characterize “Left” and “Right” differently in different contexts. Question is, what more general characterization might explain all the associations? For the Left, it has to explain not just socialism and equality of outcome, but, for example, Covid interventions, and siding with radical Islam in 9/11 and 10/7. For the Right, it has to explain not just support for capitalism but, among many things, the *very* far Right tendency to be basically against capitalism, the Plandemic-ers, and believing 9/11 and 10/7 were psyops. The (non-far) Left has a general tendency to see good in the world coming from well-intentioned centralized policies, and bad coming from too much decentralization and freedom. The (non-far) Right has a general tendency to see bad in the world coming from well-intentioned centralized policies, and good coming from decentralization and freedom. Both are “reasonable,” but the “far” versions of each become entirely crazy and dangerous.
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Chris’s reaction is a natural one from a non-deaf person, but there is more to it. When we speak, our intonation and prosody carry massive amounts of emotional expressiveness. We’re used to it, so we don’t consciously perceive it. …whereas we’re hit over the head with the amount of visual emotional expressiveness of an ASL signer. But they’re both carrying similar amounts of emotionally expressive content. I talk about this here: Why do deaf people show so much emotion on their face when talking? Moment 161
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