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> Sounds like the researchers read Derek Parfit. I’m currently experiencing whatever the opposite of the “end of history illusion” is. Let’s call it: “The begin

> Sounds like the researchers read Derek Parfit. I’m currently experiencing whatever the opposite of the “end of history illusion” is. Let’s call it: “The beginning of potentially infinite unknowable and yet inevitable futures reality.” Sounds like existential anguish. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306

m463 3y ago
funny site [ 31 ] days without a kant/can't pun
- wizzwizz4 3y ago
  Context: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/524 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/524
  - sdenton4 3y ago
    My favorite form of this is in Hedwig and the angry inch... "One day in the late mid-eighties, I was in my early late-twenties. I had just been dismissed from University after delivering a brilliant lecture on the aggressive influence of German philosophy on rock 'n' roll entitled 'You, Kant, Always Get What You Want.' At 26, my academic career was over, I had never kissed a boy, and I was still sleeping with mom. Such were the thoughts flooding my tiny head on the day that I was sunning myself... in an old bomb crater I had discovered near the Wall. I am naked. Face down, on a broken piece of church, inhaling a fragrant westerly breeze."
csdvrx 3y ago
> Sounds like existential anguish. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306 After reading her article and your link, yes, and that seems to be caused by the practical impossibility to brute force an optimized path when there're too many possibilities. It's like the curse of dimensionality but in a dynamic space: she can't ask for a complete set of videos to cover all the possibilities. She can't ask for the top probabilities either, as this would require at least a sparse sampling of this very large space (ex: how likely is the aliens landing possible, not just in Phoenix like in her example, but at all?) The desire to control your own destiny (or at least to optimize it) seems to cause a lot of anguish, as if the brain was running into a computability problem and the impossibility to compute was measured in a variable called $existential_anguish. It makes me think about the halting problem
- dwaltrip 3y ago
  The solution I’ve found is to try to optimize less. And to develop trust that your future self will be able to handle whatever comes. And to realize that shit happens and that’s okay too.
- state_less 3y ago
  When trying to control puts you into a state of anguish, you’ll know you have lost control, since you don’t set out to suffer like that. Ironically, you’ll want to surrender control, then you can move to a better state.

m463 3y ago

funny site [ 31 ] days without a kant/can't pun

wizzwizz4 3y ago
Context: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/524 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/524
- sdenton4 3y ago
  My favorite form of this is in Hedwig and the angry inch... "One day in the late mid-eighties, I was in my early late-twenties. I had just been dismissed from University after delivering a brilliant lecture on the aggressive influence of German philosophy on rock 'n' roll entitled 'You, Kant, Always Get What You Want.' At 26, my academic career was over, I had never kissed a boy, and I was still sleeping with mom. Such were the thoughts flooding my tiny head on the day that I was sunning myself... in an old bomb crater I had discovered near the Wall. I am naked. Face down, on a broken piece of church, inhaling a fragrant westerly breeze."

csdvrx 3y ago

> Sounds like existential anguish. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306 After reading her article and your link, yes, and that seems to be caused by the practical impossibility to brute force an optimized path when there're too many possibilities. It's like the curse of dimensionality but in a dynamic space: she can't ask for a complete set of videos to cover all the possibilities. She can't ask for the top probabilities either, as this would require at least a sparse sampling of this very large space (ex: how likely is the aliens landing possible, not just in Phoenix like in her example, but at all?) The desire to control your own destiny (or at least to optimize it) seems to cause a lot of anguish, as if the brain was running into a computability problem and the impossibility to compute was measured in a variable called $existential_anguish. It makes me think about the halting problem

dwaltrip 3y ago
The solution I’ve found is to try to optimize less. And to develop trust that your future self will be able to handle whatever comes. And to realize that shit happens and that’s okay too.
state_less 3y ago
When trying to control puts you into a state of anguish, you’ll know you have lost control, since you don’t set out to suffer like that. Ironically, you’ll want to surrender control, then you can move to a better state.