4 ms·
> Sounds like existential anguish. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306 After reading her article and your link, yes
by 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 agoThe 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 agoWhen 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.