It is when you're doing "Huberman Math" https://x.com/bcrypt/status/1788406218937229780
This isn't a "glimpse into science", it's mostly the techbro version of Oprah trying to sell people vitamin supplements.
For all we lament cancel culture and divisive discourse, our bookstore would look a lot worse without them, and I believe it's your patriotic duty to mock and decry people whom you perceive as harmful to society.
I do think it’s our duty to engage in dialogue about the things that we feel are harmful to society. Dialogue is all we have to address issues peacefully, and how we use it is critical.
I disagree that mocking and decrying people is the answer. This may feel good for the person or group doing it, but does little to actually move the needle in terms of actual change. What it does do is drive a wedge between the people doing the mocking and those being mocked, and I’d argue this is at the heart of the increasing polarization we see across almost every subject.
The reality is that good people have questionable or downright bad ideas/beliefs and do things that are harmful. Attack bad ideas, yes. Argue for good ideas, even forcefully when necessary. Don’t attack people.
Almost nothing of value comes from mocking and deriding people when the end goal is to coexist in a free society, especially when achieving actual systemic change via legislation depends on people agreeing/coming together and is directly harmed by creating a zero sum mindset.
I disagree completely. I find it's the idea of persuasion that has proved itself to be largely useless when people largely act irrationally and ground their worldviews in incoherent values and aesthetics. Meanwhile mocking people is an extremely effective form of communication.
It could also be, in part, because if it was lowercase people would try to say it instead of spelling out the letters.
People will often say “gyno” instead of gynecologist, if just talking about that.
