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It may be a million words of fake profundities for nerds, but it came to me at the right time to nudge me towards the PC end of the NPC/PC spectrum at universit
by Smaug123 5y ago
It may be a million words of fake profundities for nerds, but it came to me at the right time to nudge me towards the PC end of the NPC/PC spectrum at university. I'm sure I'm a better person for having read it, and my friends agree that the PC-ish ways I acted at university (in large part inspired by HPMoR) were good.
If you have suggestions for better books that make you grok again that you can and should be a PC in your life, do please recommend them - I need constant reminding or I get out of practice!
- segh 5y agoWhat do you mean by "PC"? I'm guessing Player character, as in someone who makes deliberate decisions.
- Smaug123 5y agoYes, player character. One with agency over their own life and decisions.
- segh 5y agoIn that case (because you asked for recommendations) you might enjoy this post by Tim Urban that I found inspiring, that is about a similar idea. https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-s...
- gonehome 5y agoI think it's pretty good, there's just a class of people that like to sneeringly look down on it. Cynicism (maybe snobbiness?) masquerading as intelligence. I've found the ideas in it (and the larger lesswrong community) to be pretty good, and the nature of it is that if someone actually carries specific disagreement with any of it they can persuade others. The general dismissals like the comment you replied to can usually be ignored (imo).