Fine Rambles: Recent Episodes
Matthew Fine
Matt rambles about bottled water, homeopathic medicine, and getting his ass handed to him.
Matt rambles about America's cargo cult mentality and how some values are better than others.
El Salvador adopts bitcoin, iBuyers displace homeowners, and the FDA screws up on Alzheimer's
Matt rambles about The Undertaker, ladders that go nowhere, and the pyramid scheme professions.
Matt discusses the mechanics, uses, and acquisition of Vitamin D. Links to papers available upon request.
Matt rambles about the fertility crisis caused by xenoestrogens such as phthalates and bisphenols
Matt rambles about things he doesn't understand (as usual): Chia, Proof of Work, the Red Queen Dilemma, Aave, gas prices on Ethereum, Plasma framework, optimistic rollups, Polygon, DAOs, and FiatLand.
Matt rambles about the fat-soluble vitamins, the empty food of modern civilization, and obeying Nature.
Matt rambles about the benefits of sunlight.
__ https://c19vitamind.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/d-minder-pro/id547102495
Matt rambles about the nature of reality, dangerous truths, and the priests of Progressivism.
Matt rambles about the toolbox of rationality, dueling faiths, and the religion of Progressivism.
Matt rambles about infinite money, the Cantillon Effect, and the fragility created by bailouts.
Matt tries to make sense out of the Gamestop drama and its enormous cast of characters, including Melvin Capital, Robinhood, the DTCC, Ken Griffin, Citron, Dave Portnoy, WSB, Cathie Wood, and the Hunt Brothers.
Matt rambles about ritualized violence, PTSD, and Jocko Willink. __ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqRc68rFsWk
Matt rambles about Moxie Marlinspike, two Overton windows, and a country united in despair.
Matt rambles about David Goggins, Los Alamos, and the inherent optimism of curiosity.
__ https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3353185/1/Priest-of-the-Shoggoth
Matt discusses Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage.
https://quillette.com/2020/11/07/gender-activists-are-trying-to-cancel-my-book-why-is-silicon-valley-helping-them/
Matt thinks about growing up Jewish.
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Matt asks if people should have the freedom to destroy themselves, and what happens next.
__ But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. [Romans 7:23]
Who is in greater error than the man who is led by his desire, without guidance from God? [Qur'an 28:50]
Matt looks at the human condition through the lens of The Myth of Sisyphus.
INRI: Eden, Hell, Purgatory, Heaven.
Matt rambles about kicking chairs, the arrogance of utilitarianism, and submitting to reality.
Matt rambles about the Mensheviks, BAP, and wokeism. __ And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Matt rambles about COVID-19 fatality rates, the lockdowns, and getting healthy.
... update on morbidity data: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm#T1_down
2nd update: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3001
Matt thinks out loud about how to invest in trees that will grow to the sky.
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Matt rambles about the most expensive product in the history of the world, distance as safety, and the globalization of labor.
Matt rambles about The Meritocracy Trap, Chris Arnade, and Climate Pledge Arena.
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Matt rambles about Robin DiAngelo, crowdsourced secret police, and our vulnerability to ideology.
Matt rambles about #CHAZ, BLM, and Skai Jackson.
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Matt rambles about Joe Rogan moving to Spotify, the Call Her Daddy drama, and the high cost of cheap food.
Matt rambles about Vitamin D, Smithfield, and OnlyFans.
https://www.peak-human.com/post/ivor-cummins-on-vitamin-d-the-immune-system-severe-covid-cases-and-locking-people-in-homes
https://www.peak-human.com/post/dr-joel-gould-on-vitamin-d-sunlight-the-immune-system-and-coronavirus
Matt rambles about buying locally, contagious fragility, and how you can only watch Tiger King for two generations.
Matt rambles about Team Red vs. Team Blue, existential risks, and the danger of certainty.
Matt rambles about the Federal Reserve, the health effects of seed oils, and buying a chest freezer.
https://www.peak-human.com/post/chris-knobbe-md-on-vegetable-oils-the-hidden-killer
Matt rambles about nurses being ordered to not wear masks, the advice of Bill de Blasio, and The Unimaginable Path of Jonny Kim.
Matt rambles about spring breakers, airline buybacks, and extrapolating from negative emotion.
Matt rambles about the death toll of Fukushima, wait times at DisneyWorld, and the failure of the policy response to coronavirus.
Matt rambles about how mergers killed competition and created oligopoly stacks in industries such as healthcare.
Matt rambles about learning the lingo, provenance, and the arrogance of claiming authority.
Matt rambles about the WHO, the precautionary principle, and the fragility of globalism.
https://twitter.com/normonics https://twitter.com/nCOV19 https://twitter.com/Vaccinologist/status/1223325253683875840/photo/1
Matt rambles about an economy that is increasingly either closed or winner take all -- thru the lenses of Ole Peters, Eric Weinstein, and Matt Stoller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGqOH3sYmQA https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1220724888023064576 https://twitter.com/matthewstoller
Matt rambles about counterproductive tactics. Also why activists have become fundraising bullies.
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Matt rambles about CIA coups, paying for cobras, and playing Russian Roulette with the entire human race.
Matt rambles about peak child, dual mating strategies, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
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Matt rambles about a headache, how the Boomers played the debt card, and the dangers of implementing many universal changes at the same time.
Matt tries to connect the dots between reducing yourself through IDPOL and sliding into hell.
Matt revisits the Great Financial Crisis and laments the regulatory capture of the entire government.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/secrets-and-lies-of-the-bailout-113270/
Matt rambles about activists, nature vs. nurture, and the incoherence of the woke left.
Matt rambles about Peter Boghossian's new book and the dangers of thinking your beliefs are rationally based on evidence.
Matt rambles about being sick and why he feels uncomfortable admitting that he was sick.
Matt rambles about the trolley problem, the carried interest tax loophole, and how every industry has become an anti-competitive oligopoly.
Matt rambles about instinctive belief, the ideology of Utopianism, and that slot in our brains labeled 'God'.
Matt rambles about the harm Facebook, Google, and Twitter are doing to individuals and society.
Tristan Harris written testimony: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/96e3a739-dc8d-45f1-87d7-ec70a368371d/35DE175BA77F95FB2EFC5E94018ABF1A.06-25-19harris-testimony.pdf
Matt rambles about taking a risk in Buffalo, the fragility of avocado toast, and the Book of Five Rings.
Matt and an anonymous friend discuss how Instagram is a low-resolution form of memory, how efficiency creates fragility, and how Beyond Meat and Tesla are similar.
Matt rambles about Chinatown and trying to see the divine in each other.
http://condor.depaul.edu/mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/hlg-36-questions-can-make-two-strangers-fall-love/
Matt rambles about blackmail spam, surveillance capitalism, and voluntarily exposing ourselves.
Matt tells stories he heard from Lyft drivers.
if anyone wants a challenge, here's the correct pronunciation of Uyghur: https://www.dropbox.com/s/860882m537a6jo4/pronouncing-uyghur.mp3?dl=0
Matt rambles about the FBI hate crime dataset.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/ matthewfine@zoho.com
Matt rambles about dwarf tossing, activists, and how social media accelerates natural selection.
Matt talks with Adam about lying, friendship, being vulnerable, fake it 'til you make it, and accepting/providing feedback.
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Matt rambles about comedians and where to draw the line.
notes: https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy (kicked off!) https://twitter.com/hpluckrose
Matt rambles about his lack of gratitude and how he takes it for granted when things work.
notes: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1071214285085401096
notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz0oxIZ3xIg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/editorials/wendy-mcelroy-beware-of-kafkatrapping/ https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-brick-in-the-motte/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_Studies_affair https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=yZYQpge1W5s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Shriver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0sfdpo-SAo
notes:
https://amp.slate.com/human-interest/2018/10/man-hating-lesbian-insult-reclaim-anger-metoo-activism.html?__twitter_impression=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_responsibility https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/272486/political-correctness-minority http://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship-small-minority/#.W9JjLxNKjOQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%E2%80%94
notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto https://web.archive.org/web/20130517062832/http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_model_school
Types of Mistakes I Make
notes: https://www.thisisinsider.com/circles-different-colors-optical-illusion-2018-7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_Were_Made_(But_Not_by_Me) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_the_Highly_Improbable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics
Ben Jenkins
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That_You_Love_Will_Be_Carried_Away
Religion as Moral Scaffolding
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins
A Taleb Lens on Jobs
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mccabe-will-shut-down-gofundme-page-which-raised-more-than-537000-for-his-legal-defense/2018/04/02/f0cf7be4-3687-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?utm_term=.317d1f0fdecf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Z9EZE8kpo
Purity Tests and Steelmanning
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVZxhFlgPik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War
Facing Unpleasant Facts
notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_QPCxCkws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen's_race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi#Flow
Algo Escalation and Real Estate
notes: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124 https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city
My first interview!
notes: www.YouTube.com/opus1films www.opus1films.com www.facebook.com/opus1films
The Boy Crisis
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Farrell https://jordanbpeterson.com/podcasts/podcast-episode/episode-47/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-kxdyJs6y8&feature=share
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Some Mistakes I've Made
notes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/guess_whos_coming_to_dinner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch.tv http://thielfellowship.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTgahyvBMk4
Malthus
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%9378 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States https://www.pop.org/usaid-funding-of-sterilization-camps-in-india-part-1/ https://twitter.com/HumanProgress
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Opportunity or Violence
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Daly https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pink/whataboutus.html https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/996477850281824256
Evolution Takes Small Steps
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_jet_engine https://tinyurl.com/ybe6r7ku
Reconciling Science and Religion
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma https://jordanbpeterson.com/philosophy/facts-from-values-not-without-an-intermediary-notes-on-the-sam-harris-discussions-part-ii/
Ignorant Stupid Evil
notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Browning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Modern Samizdat
notes: Stressed Out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRviuL6vMY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein#Intellectual_dark_web Queens University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdYpMS8s28
Finding New Ideas
Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerfulJRE https://www.youtube.com/user/RubinReport https://samharris.org/podcast/ https://twitter.com/foundmyfitness https://twitter.com/zeynep
Applying Hormesis
Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijdr4eJcdHQ https://twitter.com/JonHaidt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Skenazy https://twitter.com/foundmyfitness https://twitter.com/nntaleb
Hormesis
Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Coates
congressional testimony of Bret Weinstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGw9mG_IJg Challenges to the Freedom of Speech on College Campuses: Part II
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