2022-12-31#
- I cannot agree more with Lee Kuan Yew's definition of fairness: fairness is equal opportunity, not equal rewards.
- We are not just enduring life, but also enduring too many stupid decisions made by stupid people.
2022-12-30#
- Mozi had already expounded on the necessary conditions in logic over two thousand years ago: what exists may not necessarily exist, and what does not exist must necessarily not exist.
2022-12-29#
- Netease News, news with attitude, news with warmth.
2022-12-27#
- In the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968, Bowman suddenly finds himself in a familiar room and grows old there. Upon closer thought, this is similar to how wild animals are kept in zoos by humans. Both are being raised by a higher biological system and provided with similar living environments.
2022-12-25#
- The past has not died, nor has it been buried. In fact, the past has not even become the past. - William Faulkner
2022-12-24#
- Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address have one thing in common: they both start from mutually recognized and shared ideas, which is effective in eliminating differences and achieving goals.
2022-12-20#
- Paul said that the best feature of Mastodon is the absence of quote tweets (retweets with comments). I agree with him on retweets and quotes being highly destructive features, especially for users with many followers. Quotes turn retweeters and their followers into discussing others, rather than discussing each other.
2022-12-19#
- Thinking is all about questions; action is where answers lie.
2022-12-18#
- Family is our vulnerability, but also our armor. - "Avatar: The Way of Water"
2022-12-16#
- How to find interesting people in Mastodon communities like Elephants: find your favorite movies or books on NeoDB, then find users with similar ratings, click on their profile links, and follow them.
2022-12-17#
- Through education, we can avoid as much as possible the paranoia of "my own absolute correctness and dissenters' absolute wrongness."
2022-12-15#
- Absolute freedom is as dangerous as absolute power.
2022-12-14#
- Lesson from history: never earn the last penny.
2022-12-12#
- Once people form groups, factions inevitably arise. Factions cannot be completely eliminated, but their harm can be mitigated by controlling their influence.
2022-12-11#
- Reasonable fiction makes real history more moving.
2022-12-10#
- Constantly consuming content does not lead to deep thinking, and even thinking does not lead to it.
2022-12-09#
- Golden saying: the most difficult people to communicate with are not those without education, but those who have been indoctrinated with standard answers.
- Tools are the most basic demand of the internet, followed by consumer products. The development endpoint for desktop tools should be an ecosystem because of their office attributes, while the development endpoint for mobile tools should be becoming better self-extensions.
2022-12-08#
- Life is limited, don't copy others' lives.
2022-12-06#
- A proper massage is where it hurts, while an improper massage is where it feels good.
2022-12-05#
- If AI tools are abused (which is already happening by people with ulterior motives), one consequence I can foresee is the creation of many "content farms" and similar junk content, further increasing the difficulty of extracting meaningful content with AI. Is this a vicious cycle?
2022-12-04#
- Whether online or in real life, the vast majority of people are not worth arguing with.
2022-12-02#
- Nearsighted people don't often clean their glasses, and one important reason is that they can't see the dirt on their glasses.