PostsCommentsPayoutsvermis (46)in #history • 7 years agoRE: Human History X: The Ignorant Prophets Part TwoThis was fun. Humans do indeed love uncertainty and anticipation. This whole two-post series reminded me strongly of David Hume, actually. He wrote at length about the kinds…vermis (46)in #life • 7 years agoRE: Digital EmptinessI will mention some advice I do not follow, that I perhaps cannot follow, and that is almost impossible to follow, in general in this world, at least without effort: Namely…vermis (46)in #steem • 7 years agoRE: @haejin now fucking you allGod, thanks for keeping track of this. Philip Tetlock did a study on TV pundits, and found that, although most them are shitty, the most famous are on average more shitty than…vermis (46)in #psychology • 7 years agoRE: Neurotheology - What the Heck Is That?! 😮This reminds me of reading William James: Let us ourselves look at the matter in the largest possible way. Modern psychology, finding definite psycho-physical connections to…vermis (46)in #fiction • 7 years agoRE: Short Story: Mortality and ImmutabilityThanks. I was very happy with this one, so I'm glad you like it. And it is maddening, and I don't know how to deal with it. To counteract short-term failures of resolution…vermis (46)in #curation • 7 years agoRE: Just Think of This As My @Curie Application Form.Woah, man, thanks so much! I really don't know what to say. I'm still watching intro videos and orienting myself, and trying to understand the whole complex ecosystem of this…vermis (46)in #history • 7 years agoRE: Human History X: The MapmakersWouldn't be surprised if you knew this, given the above, but Peter Thiel on maps is fun. In Zero to One he says that he thinks the absence of terra incognita on maps is…vermis (46)in #fiction • 7 years agoRE: Short Story: Red Queen's RaceWill do :) Thanks.vermis (46)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Make your own house for 500 Euro- I did! with no previous experience, we built a comfy Strawbale homeI liked this post -- can we see any subsequent houses you built also?vermis (46)in #steemit • 7 years agoRE: Sufficient External Systemic Failure: Hopes and Fears for SteemitAll those make a lot of sense. Definitely left out a lot in the above. The point that hits me most is the immediate remuneration. In the past (and in the present in places)…vermis (46)in #poetry • 7 years agoRE: Masturbating and Calling It Poetry (Potentially Offensive Opinions Here, but For Steemit's Greater Good, I'm Sticking With Honesty)So I read this, and thought was an interesting case of a general problem, and then wrote this about it. I mention this post in it, so I thought it was polite to mention it…vermis (46)in #introduceyourself • 7 years agoRE: First Steemit Post: Truth, Spec Fic, Machine LearningThanks for the welcome, and for the advice re. tags. Still a noob.vermis (46)in #introduceyourself • 7 years agoRE: First Steemit Post: Truth, Spec Fic, Machine LearningThanks, good to be here!vermis (46)in #writing • 7 years agoRE: The "Art" of Writing About Hot Girls in Yoga PantsIf Pascal had needed to write about hot girls in yoga pants, I'm pretty sure he would have written something like this afterwards. I know that a lot of guides for beginning…