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by acituan 5y ago
> Mindfulness' is nothing but egotism Eh, I think this is reading too much into it. Mindfulness is merely a training in relaxing and finessing of our rigid egoic framing and thus be able to generate more insights. It is egocentric i
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by acituan 5y ago
> Minimalism is about avoiding excess junk that you don't need This is a very shallow heuristic. “Stuff you’ll need over a lifetime” has a very long tail that requires a balance in trade-off between just-in-time availability vs wait
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by acituan 5y ago
> The problem is we have short lifespans so small setbacks in humanity's history are significant to those of us alive at that point in time. It is still a reason to be optimistic. Limited individual lifespan is like a regularization
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by acituan 5y ago
Yup, that is actively coupled to depression and most people can't talk about it to help themselves. Problem with advocation of "nihilism" that gets distributed widely is that it is a performative contradiction. In reality it
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by acituan 5y ago
The difference is paperclip optimizer's existence does not depend on the paperclips. For any organism, being able to correctly read their subset of "reality" is the only thing that increases their chance of survival - and ove
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by acituan 5y ago
It is a failure in continuation from the ground of being to a view on the totality of the existence. No one has a problem finding meaning in the minutiae of their here and now; they avoid pain, they feed themselves, they breathe. They confo
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by acituan 5y ago
I wish author got out of their self-referentiality a bit before going deep with their presuppositions into a book. > “Nihilizing” is a thing we all do at times: refusing to recognize meanings that are right in front of us. If there is a
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by acituan 5y ago
Ultimate stillness is death, and the ideas of nirvana while leaving folks behind is but a single school in Buddhist thought. I find it to be anti-humanist romantic escapism. Another version of nirvana brings back the learnings to other huma
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by acituan 5y ago
> People get propagandist content because they willingly consume propagandist content. They like it. More like that content creates engagement and ad money, and people respond to it even though they feel worse. (Not exclusive to news, so
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by acituan 5y ago
Practice cognitive behavioral therapy and specifically their cognitive distortions, eg fill in a “daily mood log” form (look it up). Reading about distortions propositionally is not going to get you better, you have to train yourself fi
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by acituan 5y ago
> a cognitive bias is a way that a solution to unconstrained optimization differs from a solution to a corresponding constrained optimization problem That is a narrow and incorrect definition IMHO. Two resource constrained solutions can
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by acituan 5y ago
> Should the next generation of birds be more happy and fulfilled than the previous one? Should the next generation of chimps have stronger lasting relationships? Does it even makes sense? Happiness is a proxy for successful adaptation t
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by acituan 5y ago
> I'm pretty sure a company like Google that has no problem killing unsuccessful products after multi-billion dollar investments, knows how not to fall for the sunken cost fallacy. Deadweight products vs appreciable assets are not t
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by acituan 5y ago
> There is a reason why companies like Google are doubling down in Silicon Valley real estate. They believe that the best, most innovative type of work are the results of organic discussions and unscheduled, unplanned, casual human inter
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by acituan 5y ago
> Vaccine passports are essentially pointless and possibly dangerous if they give a false sense of security. Only asymptomatic, more infectious people will be allowed in. Counterargument; mixing of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations
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by acituan 5y ago
> Average market growth is higher than the average inflation per year. I trust that investing in the market and holding a percent of your portfolio in Treasury bonds will give you a very good chance of growing or maintaining your savings
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by acituan 5y ago
What about phone interviews and remote work? Especially this year I’ve interviewed tons of folks without having seen their faces or knowing their ages. I don’t deny your experience by the way, but without hard data isn’t it hard to say if p
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by acituan 5y ago
I find most of the advice too narrow to be useful. - It over-emphasizes the normativity of job security and not having missed a paycheck but if your calculus is at the level of paychecks in an era where developers are paid this handsomely
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by acituan 5y ago
Aren't what you're suggesting also a form of ageism?
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by acituan 5y ago
Wealth is like a cube of ice too; it will slowly melt whether you like it or not. General inflation, specific CoL line items, or cost of education for your kids etc; they all change without any notion of fairness to your hard work. The heal
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by acituan 5y ago
> The question you really want to be asking is "does it materially affect most peoples' mental heath?". Personally, I think the answer is no not really. Obviously it becomes a vice for some. The real question is how would
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by acituan 5y ago
> Welles distinguishes stupidity from ignorance; where stupidity means one must know they are acting in their own worst interest in that it must be a choice, not a forced act or accident. The problem with this definition is taking a very
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by acituan 5y ago
> Would you mind avoiding the tortured use of terminology from CS to describe what is not a CS problem? You haven't mentioned which terminology you're talking about but assuming it is one of combinatorial explosion, compression
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by acituan 5y ago
> You can't fix stupid. What if this is one of the ways we’re being stupid? One of the other properties of stupid is that we don’t know when we are being stupid, because if we did we could have gotten ourselves out of it.
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by acituan 5y ago
You’re one google search away from liberation: “Wisdom cognitive science”
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by acituan 5y ago
Not exclusively. It is also a very Socratic perspective (which happens to be a contemporary to Buddha). Buddhist interpretation of ignorance overlaps more with Socratic interpretation than our current use of the word. It is not a mere lack
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by acituan 5y ago
I wish the author[1] read a bit more about the science of wisdom and foolishness before ruining their good intuition with a stubbornly limited perspective. > Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you
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by acituan 5y ago
I agree with your thesis in general with several nitpicks; > Sure, there are true believers who think abusing trust and technical power to shape narratives is honest and necessary work Narrative warfare exists and is not a single agent
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by acituan 5y ago
You can’t compare a longitudinal study with a cross sectional study. This study doesn’t account for the time dependent decay of vaccines’ immunity. There is more than one dimension to optimize for.
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by acituan 5y ago
Funny enough this is an area we can exert personal responsibility.

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