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#ruleofthumb: When they say you’re “too woke”, you’re not nearly #woke enough.

#RuleOfThumb

Running government as a business enables the problems with business that government is supposed to offset.

#RuleOfThumb

When someone who does illegal things demands that you do something, insist that they first prove that it's legal... Because it likely isn't.

#RuleOfThumb

Hand holding a puppet: You can't live with someone who sees you as an object to be manipulated if you do what they want, or an enemy to destroy if you don't

#RuleOfThumb

People hiking up a mountain:

A LEADER INSPIRES YOU TO BE BETTER

A CON GIVES YOU PERMISSION TO BE WORSE

#RuleOfThumb.

Man holds sign: Unrepentant criminals are dangerous leaders.

#RuleOfThumb

Woman holds sign: ISOLATION REQUIRES CONSERVATION

... This leads to a #RuleOfThumb: Respect others, because you might unknowingly depend on them respecting you and those you care about.

Note that “respect” does not require acceptance. If actions of others lead to “bad” results, then those actions can be considered bad also. I try to allow for the possibility of unknown “good” consequences that might ultimately override what I consider bad; so such judgments are provisional.

#RuleOfThumb

An oath is worthless when taken by someone with nothing to fear from breaking it.

#RuleOfThumb

When a liar calls something a hoax, it likely isn't.

#RuleOfThumb

If what we need to know is hidden, then we are justified in assuming the worst and distrusting who's hiding it.

Some perspective on abortion: it (along with high contraception) is needed to maintain low population growth, as would be needed to maintain consumption below critical resource limits as we now have. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3709011/

#RuleOfThumb: Banning abortion, contraception, and environmental protection is the same as promoting mass death.

#RuleOfThumb: You don't get rid of evil by killing people. You get rid of evil by changing how people think. But if they refuse to think then you've got a bigger problem.

#RuleOfThumb...

If a leader kills his followers then he is their enemy, not their leader

Here's a handy heuristic or rule of thumb:

If it's AI and you're not paying money to interact? Datamining/training scam.

If it's AI and you're paying to interact? Just a regular scam.

Please do not be the sort of turniphead that does these companies work for free.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/24306575/anthropic-claude-ai-custom-style-presets

#AIethics #AIscams #AI #TheVerge #ruleOfThumb #claude #anthropic

#RuleOfThumb

Faith, like ignorance, makes blind spots

#RuleOfThumb

If you can lie about anything then you can't be trusted with anything

"Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it."
-Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
#art #artquote #quotes #thewarofart #resistance #procrastination #ruleofthumb

…wow, this, too:

“a clumsier but more accurate corollary…:

"‘Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.’”

#HanlonsRazor #adage #ruleOfThumb #MurphysLaw

#ruleofthumb

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