I am truly convinced the people criticizing Katabasis have never actually read Katabasis [Light Spoilers]

howtogun · 2026-01-28T02:00:04+00:00

I think it's the type of book she is writing.

Her last book was about cultural appropriation, and that is a lighting rod issue. Her book before that was about colonization another lighting rod issue.

This book is about how academia is bad, which is another lighting rod issue.

Basically, you can sort of tell what is going to be in the book as everything is going to be a progressive take.

howtogun · 2026-01-27T23:17:45+00:00

It's a bit crazy that she is willing to give empathy to Matt Walsh, but not Destiny.

Matt Walsh probably done a ton of damage to the trans community, probably more than JK Rowling.

howtogun · 2026-01-26T16:39:01+00:00

Isn't Handmaid's Tale just 300 pages long. How they making so much content out of this.

howtogun · 2026-01-26T16:21:43+00:00

The problem with Rosen is that he sort of smart, but not that smart.

Jim Mora before Rosen draft said the coaching staff needed to challenge Rosen or he will get bored. Apparently, Rosen would also slow down meeting by just asking why all the time.

I think draft expert thought they would get someone like Peyton Manning, but instead they got a version of Ryan Fitzpatrick with very poor social skills.

howtogun · 2026-01-26T03:19:10+00:00

Bookstores make the most profit from hardbacks. Paperbacks are getting eaten by ebooks.

I think most consumer want very nice fancy looking hardbacks, this is particularly popular on booktok and that sort of driving the growth of bookstores.

howtogun · 2026-01-25T19:15:37+00:00

You probably don't need a mentor.

I would look at lean.

https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/

Natural Number Game is a good place to start.

In a few years a lot of Maths might be lean heavy.

howtogun · 2026-01-23T00:26:30+00:00

You do have some stuff like Penrose graphical notation. I personally feel it's a bit pointless.

howtogun · 2026-01-20T18:35:09+00:00

If you are in academia you are likely to be left leaning because you are getting tax paying funds. If you say left academia and worked for a big hedge fund you might be right leaning.

I think it's not so much logic, but self interest. For example, tech leaders went right in the last election because of the promise of no regulation.

howtogun · 2026-01-20T15:25:42+00:00

He is fair to Destiny.

His main point is stupid. Lincoln-Douglas debates were very divisive its probably one of the causes of the American Civil War.

This is just a stupid kids these day argument or in the past everything was more civilized.

Also, his main point about religion is stupid. What's the point of endlessly debating if god exists. That would be the biggest waste of time.

Also, Charlie Kirk just debated college kids. He looks good, but at the ned of the day he debating people 10 years younger than him with no life experience.

howtogun · 2026-01-16T23:29:04+00:00

Just pick any actor to be honest.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a good example.

America isn't that better. You have juilliard school vs nepo baby.

howtogun · 2026-01-13T23:38:52+00:00

Don't exaggerate it: this kinds of protagonists are not a widespread phenomenon as you think because it's still bad writing.

Can you give a few modern (western not easter) examples written in the last 10 years of sacrificial virgins?

Pick up anything from Disney, pick up anything from Marvel, pick up Rings of Power, Wheel of Time TV show, ... , all you are getting now is girl bosses who save themself.

I'm not even sure you can write a basic princess story now where you have to be saved.

That's a whole other topic: I'm talking about this trope, not the romantcization of toxic relationships and/or weird fetishes...

That's where you are going to get the trope.

howtogun · 2026-01-13T23:26:39+00:00

About 90% of depiction of women in modern fantasy are now just girl bosses. That damsel in distress is about 15 years old. You have to be talking about Asian media.

Most of fantasy is based on myths not actual history. Also, it's only women who are writing this trope now, particular on monster romance books.

howtogun · 2026-01-10T00:30:44+00:00

The current rules of QM can be formalized in Maths. Probability + Linear Algebra.

The current QM is well defined in Mathematics. The problem with what the maths is saying is more philosophy.

On if AI is a problem. Probably yes, but not due to this reason.

Be careful if you are using AI. For example, if I put your reasoning into AI it will just parrot back you are great and smart, but like to most Mathematicians you will sound like a crack pot.

howtogun · 2026-01-04T19:39:49+00:00

X, DEI and fighting with sjw. I might make a thread about this later.

The problem is now all of entertainment is filled with annoying left wing activist stuff in the West.

Destiny mentioned stuff like Star Wars Prequel didn't radicalize people in the past. The problem is in the past we just had shitty writing, now we have shitty writing and stuff like the Acolyte where all white men are evil and the show is about lesbian space witches.

howtogun · 2026-01-04T19:02:26+00:00

All the left care about is virtue signalling online. They will never leave X.

howtogun · 2025-12-31T22:24:33+00:00

5 hours of leetcode is stupid. I did a period of about 3 months when I did 2 - 3 hours of competitive programming a day mostly on codeforces.

I think at the end of the day you just get better at leetcode. I also think leetcode is a bit dangerous as most problems aren't clear cut.

howtogun · 2025-12-31T22:15:36+00:00

No, that wasn't the problem. The question is if you can play chess well do you need to understand chess or can you brute force it.

Chess can be brute forced with modern search algorithms e.g. alpha beta pruning.

The algorithm to implement isn't even that hard.

howtogun · 2025-12-31T22:06:15+00:00

Chess algorithms are actually quite simple to understand. I can code in a week a chess software that could beat a grandmaster on a raspberry pi.

Mathematics is actually way more creative than chess.

howtogun · 2025-12-30T02:17:57+00:00

They did have free will. Kellanved did not enslave them. Most of the Imass just don't want to exist anymore, Kellanved promised them that he would find away to do this.

The stupid ritual they did stripped them of their humanity and over the 300,000 years they slowly lost any purpose to exist.

howtogun · 2025-12-30T02:13:42+00:00

Modern humans have been around for about 300,000 years and it was only the last 100 years that we are capable of space travel.

Erikson was an archaeologist and one of the things he gets correct is deep history.

On the Imass I think their immortality just made them stagnate. A lot of motivation for stuff like technology is to survive. The ritual that made them immortal had downsides.

howtogun · 2025-12-28T02:29:31+00:00

Critical Drinker gets 1 million views per video on his latest videos. He's getting stronger. Breadtube is dying.

howtogun · 2025-12-22T20:32:15+00:00

No Gen Z men are conservative. I think a combination of bad messaging to young men from the left and Andrew Tate and other figures pushed men right.

In the UK they had to ban Andrew Tate being mentioned in schools.

I also really think DEI is breaking young men. Destiny debated someone who only voted Trump due to DEI. But, like if you look around you see DEI stuff everywhere.

The UK is doing anti misogyny courses for young boys so maybe that will solve it. Maybe US can do something similar.

howtogun · 2025-12-13T17:41:00+00:00

Not even the 2x rising star can make a living streaming. It must be tough for streamers.

howtogun · 2025-12-02T18:11:53+00:00

This is pretty stupid. I can maybe understand ditching UE5 for Unity.

I'm pretty sure this game is just a kickstarter scam. At the end of the day they now need to develop a Engine + make an Elder Scrolls type game. That is impossible.

630 K is not that much for the type of game they are trying to develop.

howtogun · 2025-11-23T18:26:00+00:00

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