September 20th, 2025
- one parent who always lies and the other who always tells the truth
- #2tweet if something feels expensive, in some ways that's because you have less money than other people, and in other ways that's because they like the thing more than you do
(or because there's a short-term supply shortage)- if something feels expensive, in some ways that's because you have less money than other people, and in other ways that's because they like the thing more than you do
(or because there's a short-term supply shortage) - (this idea brought to you by grapes, which I like just don't buy at the price they're always at, but clearly other people do or nobody would be able to make money growing grapes, so I must value them less)
- obviously this also only applies to something whose underlying marginal cost is not that high, like if buying a space laser seems expensive that's a different thing
- epic supercooperation cluster twitter thread... basically rederives the same structure from a different path
- > I think there is a good case that hypercooperation is a stable attractor, and multicellular life is an existence proof
- relatedly, see exchanges above this:
- (the top-level tweet is from Emmett!)
- hyperstition Montaigne quote &+
- > Fortis imaginatio generat casum A powerful imagination causes the event, as the scholars say.