fincycaden

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by fincycaden 1y ago
I'd just like to say that I feel you and understand you. I'm a university student as well, feeling a similar way. I'm in Electrical Engineering, and I feel disillusioned with the way society is degenerating. Best of luck, fri
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by fincycaden 1y ago
Interestingly this is Ted Kaczysnki's argument for what will inevitably happen with genetic engineering of humans
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by fincycaden 2y ago
Absolutely. I began thinking this way when I was the guinea pig, and suffered a permanent life-alerting effect from a medication, which was anecdotally reported despite there being no official correlation or link by the "science"
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by fincycaden 2y ago
That's the fault of the media, not the government.
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by fincycaden 2y ago
What a strange argument. No matter the economical situation, companies will still want to maximize profits. In the case of the media, drawing the most attention, which results in depressing doomsaying, regardless of reality
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by fincycaden 2y ago
"But the power process is just a game, or perhaps more accurately a built in biological addiction to games that caused us to pass on our genes in the past. Why is it truly metaphysically better than, say, racking up Reddit karma?"
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by fincycaden 2y ago
"But why is the struggle for survival better? Isn’t it just another game?" The reason why the struggle for survival is better is because that is what we are psychologically predisposed to be fulfilled by. Millions of years of evol
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by fincycaden 2y ago
The fact that he is a murderer is completely irrelevant to the discussion, nor was he insane. A genius mathematician, actually
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by fincycaden 2y ago
I think another aspect is that many things that are within someone's control that positively affect attractiveness require patience and long-term thinking. Working out, brushing teeth regularly, eating healthy, etc, are not enjoyable i