Author Archives: Torin McCabe

“To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods.” What is winning?  Winning is the elevation of the good, the beautiful, and the true.  Winning is the continuous flourishing of ourContinue reading “On Winning”

For the longest time I was confused why when reading political opinion articles written by American blacks they would constantly and at great length and with great emotionality keep bringing up slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, redlining, personal accounts of racism, and more recently personal accounts of racist micro aggressions.  My somewhat autistic brain would beContinue reading “NPCs are enslaved by moral-debt”

The third thing to understand about humans is that they are extremely dangerous.  Picture yourself as a humble cockroach enjoying a meal, suddenly there is a loud scream, and you are violently tossed up into the air, you then come crashing down to the earth, and are momentarily dazed before you quickly scurry for safety,Continue reading “NPCs are lynching volcano mobs of cops that have cockroaches in their soup”

The second thing to understand about humans is that they are all NPCs.  Well not literally but rather as a model.  All-Models-Are-Wrong (but some are useful) so acting-as-if-it-is-true rather than arguing against it can bring to light some useful insights. The main utility of thinking that humans are NPCs is that it explains why theyContinue reading “NPC-Think: no one really thinks, we’re all NPCs”

The first thing to understand about humans is that humans-don’t-really-think.  Their meat-brains automatically react to external stimuli based on their previous programming.  For example: some people see rocks on the planet Mars and their meat-brains auto-respond “face”.  Immigration restriction causes some people’s meat-brains to auto-respond “racist”.  This is the vaunted “thinking” of the “wise man”Continue reading “Don’t be an NPC, how to (actually) think in three easy steps”