Luigi Mangione

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Luigi Mangione

@PepMangione

M.S.E. and B.S.E. in Computer Science @ Penn

Honolulu, Hawaiilinktr.ee/lnmangioneJoined April 2016

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Luigi Mangione

@PepMangione

Dec 9, 2022

7 years ago, I gave my hs senior speech on this topic: “Today, I will be talking to you about the future, about topics ranging from conscious artificial intelligence to human immortality. Likely, you’ll dismiss all this pretty quickly as interesting, but just science fiction…”

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Tim Urban

@waitbutwhy

Dec 8, 2022

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I don't know if the future is going to be utopia or dystopia. But it's unlikely to be anything in between.

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Pretty huge Dick

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Luigi Mangione

@PepMangione

May 24

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This is why Jordan Peterson always bothers me. Overcomplicates everything he says aloud, wasting everyone's mental bandwidth in having to decipher it. The best teachers are the best communicators: clear, succinct, simple language

Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal. The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural. Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality: * ban Tenga fleshlights and “Japan Real Hole”

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iamyesyouareno

@iamyesyouareno

Apr 18

Immigration won’t solve anything, it’s maybe a short term solution at best. Japan will be fine as long as it stays Japanese.

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such blatant chatgpt lmfao

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horror vacui (nature abhors a vacuum) relevant read, "Christianity's decline has unleashed terrible new gods": msn.com/en-us/news/wor "New Atheism assumed that, as people abandoned Christianity they would embrace a sort of enlightened, secular position. The death of Christian

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Jash Dholani

@oldbooksguy

Apr 19

Richard Dawkins when he disproves God and within 2 decades his side is worshipping at the DEI shrine, using made-up pronouns like religious mantras, and firing professors for saying men cant get pregnant

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Porn should be regulated no less than alcohol, cigarettes, and travel

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Luigi Mangione

@PepMangione

May 15

"Cellular agriculture is where solar power was 20 years ago, and EV batteries were 10 years ago."

Free, ethical money for anyone who's paying attention. This succinct, 5-minute article by The Telegram overviews Agronomics and the current state of cell-agriculture.

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Agronomics

@AgronomicsLtd

Nov 20, 2023

Lab-grown food may be the next great investment boom – and save the world in the process telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/

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can this trash be illegal

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so you’re saying this question doesn’t haunt you also you don’t have a doghouse

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Max

@minordissent

May 28

there’s no place like home

Luigi Mangione

@PepMangione

Mar 17

These are phenomenal. Took me years to learn on my own

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Johnny Brown

@johnnyxbrown

Mar 16

I've been going to the gym for 10 years. Here are 50 things I wish I had known from the beginning: 1. A gym membership is cheaper and more effective than antidepressants.

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This always baffles me too. Not a difficult concept. When I was 15, I wrote a paper about Christianity's rise over (secular) Roman Paganism due to fitness-enhancing benefits for the plebs:

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How Christianity Prospered by Appealing to the Lower Classes of Ancient Rome Luigi Mangione Teachers: Dr. Harris and Mr. Hastings Due Date: 5/13/14 “As a gentleman, I have acted honorably on this...

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Part 3/3 If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, If 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, Then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I'd say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks

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I should have added some context with that clip. I wasn't trying to contradict you, but rather bolster your point. Tucker is spot-on in recognizing that modern architecture kills the spirit, but his very first line "post-modern architecture is designed to demoralize and hurt

"Being smart makes you more prone to confirmation bias. In retrospect, it shouldn't have been surprising. Confirmation bias is what happens when the little lawyer in your head takes control of your thinking process—and smart people have a very smart little lawyer in there."

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“…Or worse, you might simply think I’m crazy. But, if you just stay with me for these next eight minutes, I’m confident I can convince you not only of my sanity, but also that the next hundred years of our future are going to be unlike anything humanity has ever seen before.”

Luigi Mangione

@PepMangione

Jan 25

Part 1/3 I used to get bummed in math class when learning theorems: "All the low-hanging fruit has been solved before I was born! If I was alive at the time of Pythagoras I could've easily derived the Pythagorean theorem and etched my place in history!"

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Part 2/3 But now I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would've had access to.

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“When we understand just how fast the rate of human progress is increasing, a revolutionary near future isn’t unbelievable, it’s actually the only logical conclusion.”

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“Finally, be excited for what the future holds for us. We may have been born into one of the most exciting times on earth, regardless of the singularity. We might not recognize it in our day to day lives, but the world is changing fast.”

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It’s 2022 and we live in the future. What a wild time to be alive

Luigi Mangione

@PepMangione

Apr 25

“When the population gets dumber these systems break down which in turn means the population decreases”… I see no logical reason why this follows. You underestimate the power of how a few intelligent people + robust systems can keep all the idiots afloat

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I believe this book will go down in history as the most important philosophical text of the early 21st century

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Tim Urban

@waitbutwhy

Feb 21, 2023

My book What's Our Problem? is now available. The book introduces a new framework for thinking about our chaotic political environment. With 303 drawings, it's a toolbox for understanding our societies, our group dynamics, and our own minds. Get it here: waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem

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When I first became agnostic I was almost anti-religion. Thought religious people were wasting precious time trapped in a delusion. But now, I see no problem with it if they aren’t pushing their beliefs and it helps them cope with death, etc. I’m kinda jealous actually

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Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? It predicts the opposite of what you suggest: the overall dumbing down of humanity with the entire bell curve shifting left due to reproductive dynamics. It's obviously satire, but I've always worried that's the direction we are heading.

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Utilitarian Ethics vs Virtue Ethics: Utilitarian: The action is good if the consequences are good Virtue: The action is good if it’s what a virtuous person would do Poll results indicate respondents’ moral frameworks Homicide: worse consequences Rape: worse virtues

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"Drug abuse" isn't fair criteria imo. The most intelligent, open-minded individuals I know all manipulate and push the buttons of their pysche via *specific* drugs. "Drug abuse" should distinguish psilocybin, marijuana from addictive soul-suckers like meth, fentanyl, etc

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This is true when comparing 2 choices in a vacuum, but when there exists >2 choices, we actually tend to find more similar choices easier to compare. Great excerpt from Dan Ariely's "Predictably Irrational":

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meme-version I always send in debates:

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Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

May 20, 2021

Oldie but a very goodie

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric"

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Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

May 18, 2021

Happy birthday, Bertrand Russell!

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Wdym. You don’t believe depression has a genetic component? The issue with this guy is that he’s discounting “nurture” so hard he’s voluntarily ending his own bloodline

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Does he really think twitter is going out of their way to "shadow ban" him? The much simpler, and obvious explanation is that no one wants to hear him complain ad infinitum into the void.. Schizo ramblings produce nothing of value. As if Twitter devotes time and resources to

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Jash Dholani

@oldbooksguy

Mar 15

Tucker Carlson: "Moscow has not been degraded by postmodern architecture that destroys your spirit" Chris Cuomo: "You believe postmodern architecture is designed to kill your spirit?!" Tucker: "Of course." Cuomo: "Why?" Tucker's answer will blow your mind. A rant for the ages:

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