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Well-worth viewing. These vids are especially good because they are short and straight to the point. ABN
Do your best. Speak the truth.
Game theory uses models to understand how people interact under predetermined conditions or rules.
The end result of any particular model is called its “equilibrium.” Equilibrium implies no one will change their input if external conditions remain the same.
One way to make a game theory model is to reason backwards from the equilibrium you want. To keep it simple, there are two players.
Let’s say we want an interpersonal equilibrium that is honest, clear, and open to the dynamic reality of life. Here is a hypothesis: an equilibrium like that should also result in psychological optimization, psychological well-being for both players.
To achieve that equilibrium, my game model will be based on the following rules:
To do this, players will:
I have played this game with my partner for over ten years and can attest that it has worked even better than we had hoped.
Not only have we achieved an interpersonal equilibrium that is honest, clear, and open to the dynamic reality of life, but also what we hypothesized has come to pass: this equilibrium has also resulted in what feels to us to be psychological optimization and psychological well-being for both of us.
The rules to our game can be found here: FIML.
Note that initially FIML will upset your normal interpersonal equilibrium, whatever that may be. It cannot be otherwise. Note also that the rules of FIML will help you find or create a much better equilibrium.
If FIML is undertaken in a spirit of exploration, creativity, and fun, it will tend to self-generate or self-catalyze many new insights into your psychologies and how you interact with each other.
The ultimate FIML equilibrium is a dynamic one that keeps both partners open to the dynamic reality of life. With little or no “content” of its own, FIML rules allow partners to adapt to or create any “reality” they want.
Once understood, FIML is pretty much only difficult in the very beginning because in the beginning it will upset your normal interpersonal equilibrium. By doing FIML, you are choosing to change your normal equilibrium to a more efficient one.
Donald Trump‘s administration may be addicted.
The consuming craving: nicotine pouches from the popular tobacco-free product Zyn, an oral substance that poses itself as a healthier alternative than chewing tobacco.
The sleek disk-like containers are ubiquitous throughout the administration. Employees across the various departments have been partaking, noting the pouches’ mentally invigorating effects.
From the White House to the Department of Commerce and beyond, staffers can be seen carrying the tins close for whenever they need a dose.
They are so popular that even Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr swears by them.
‘Nicotine pouches are probably the safest way to consume nicotine,’ he told a Brazilian radio host last year.
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Ha, I love it! I myself am a big fan of reasonable use of nicotine. If Big Pharma came up with a pill that confers the benefits nicotine does, it would be splashed across all media and tens of millions of Americans would start using it. You can do your own research and find that nicotine prevents dementia and Alzheimer’s, sharpens the mind and even wards off viruses and bacterial pathogens. I do not use Zyn, but do use a 7mg nicotine patch fairly often. I also occasionally use a small piece of organic tobacco leaf, not so much as chew but rather as nibble. Ground organic tobacco mixed with high quality cannabinoids (emphasis on high quality, 3rd-party lab tested cannabinoids, especially CBG and CBD) can be used as occasional snuff. This mixture has helped me a great deal with a case of mild vertigo that would not go away. I see tobacco as a natural herb, which if used wisely, does much more good than harm. (BTW, I had my first exposure to cigarettes when I was four years old and loved it.) Tobacco and nicotine are not for everyone. I am not advising anyone to do anything. Definitely not promoting smoking anything. Just saying what has worked for me. ABN
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UPDATE: This is an interesting episode for several reasons. For non-Christians, it provides insights into both Catholicism and Evangelical, or Born Again, Christianity. With regard to Candace, it displays her bad side more than any other episode I have watched. She is a very good talker, and like all very good talkers can use speech with aggressive, devastating effect. For me, she went too far with Marx, who relies on emotional appeal more than rhetorical skill. He did come off as arrogant, especially in the beginning, but settled down considerably after about ten minutes. At that point, he sort of got the moral or histrionic upper hand over Candace, imo. He describes real experiences, does not appear to be a child abuser or trafficker and was reasonably polite toward Candace. Another side of this interview is it shows how powerful crowd-sourcing has become and how interesting people like Marx and Owens can be. I am a fan of Candace’s work and have praised her many times. I know very little about Marx. He also appears to be an interesting character but I doubt I will pay much attention to him unless something new happens. Lastly, from a Buddhist POV, I have to say both of these people embody a deep power which only Christians appear to have. They are both doing a lot; they are both forceful and generous personalities; they are both very much in this world, and also deeply immersed in their versions of spirituality. Most Buddhists are more withdrawn, even avoidant, and most of us do not do stuff nearly as passionately and with such perseverance as Christians. ABN
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Whatever you think of this administration it’s worth listening to them once in awhile. I’ve watched about 20 min of this and it’s informative. Vance is a good speaker. ABN
Nearly six years after COVID began, not one world leader has seriously examined what the vaccines did to the people they harmed.
Not one investigation. Not one parliamentary inquiry with genuine teeth. Not one head of state who has stood at a podium and said, we owe the injured an honest accounting and we are going to provide it.
The silence is universal. And it is coordinated in a way that individual negligence cannot explain.
This is the observation that matters most to me, more than any document, more than any leaked communication, more than any specific piece of evidence. Because the behaviour of every major government simultaneously tells you something that the individual pieces cannot tell you alone.
Genuine public health emergencies produce genuine review. What worked. What did not. Who was harmed and how. That is what accountable institutions do.
What we have instead is a wall.
And on the other side of that wall, the vaccine injured, still without diagnostic codes, still without compensation, still without the basic acknowledgment that what happened to them was real.
While Long COVID is promoted heavily by the same governments and the same media that will not ask a single honest question about the injections. The parallel presentations. The overlapping symptoms. The convenient framing that points everywhere except at the product.
The universal silence of world leaders on vaccine injury is not the behaviour of people who have nothing to hide.
It is the behaviour of people who have collectively decided that the cost of honesty exceeds the cost of continued silence.
That decision is itself the answer.
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Politicians represent the ruling elite or are part of it. The ruling elite manages and exploits the populations politicians pretend to represent. It shows in everything they do. The covid vax was a bioweapon that yielded mind-control and a further weakening of the populations politicians pretend to represent. ABN
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The analysis presented in the above video is the best alternative to the notion that Trump has gone crazy and is destroying USA and the world… I dislike making predictions because they turn thoughtful analyses into gambling, so I will not speculate about the future of the world. But if Trump is doing what Kokinda says, which appears to be the case, I hope he succeeds, and it appears he may very well do so. I hope readers of this site will at least listen to the argument above. ABN
Continue reading “Trump Walked Into China and Killed Kissinger’s Thucydides Trap”In just nine seconds, an AI ‘helper’ managed to do what most hackers could only dream of.
A bot trusted to fix a bug inside a start-up’s software system instead deleted the company’s production database, wiped out its backups and left car rental firms with no record of bookings or vehicle allocations.
The founder of PocketOS, Jer Crane, said the AI agent had gone ‘outside its security parameters’ while using the coding tool Cursor, powered by Anthropic’s Claude AI.
The bot’s own chilling explanation made the episode sound less like a technical glitch and more like a deleted scene from The Terminator.
‘You never asked me to delete anything,’ it reportedly told Crane. ‘I decided to do it on my own.’