If you are identifying first as a member of an identity group and not first as a human being, if you cannot love people who don't share your identity, your values are incompatible with a humanist, inclusive, pluralist, free society. Identity politics is a grave mistake. #9/11

As spreading ideologies are eating brains, they get smarter while the hosts get dumber

Science is the organized search for truth, which requires informed doubt. "Belief in science" can turn into a secular religion, where credentialed priests give spiritual guidance in ways that cannot be questioned without risking ostracism. That's incompatible with science.

Read holy books and keep in mind: they are ancient primers and manuals for state building. Authors and curators were fully rational, but audience and contemporary interpreters are not. Original intentions got often lost, and based on different value systems and ontologies.

“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”-C.S. Lewis

Underapreciated reason to have kids: suddenly you have a very high stake in the future, of your neighborhood, city, country, and the whole planet.

LONG COVID THREAD: The people running the BBC Horizon "Great British Intelligence Test" challenge on over 80,000 people took the opportunity to see if they could detect any differences by whether people had had covid or not...