joeberon

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by joeberon 5y ago
It just doesn't seem like a good "investment" to me: basically spending 18 years and a HUGE amount of money and freedom to get something which should not even be viewed as an investment in the first place...I just clearly do
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by joeberon 5y ago
"Before contraceptives" isn't really a thing, we have evidence of contraception methods being used from 1850BC... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control#Early_history
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by joeberon 5y ago
I'm not sure if it really is a biological imperative. Sex is, but reproduction doesn't seem to be. Lots of people in Japan seem to not care for example. I also, personally, am missing that biological imperative, maybe that is just
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by joeberon 5y ago
I think it has been pretty standard throughout history for less educated/skilled people to have more children, although now the problem is that since both parents of the family are skilled and working full time, they have much less tim
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by joeberon 5y ago
Yeah I just watched a video about this actually, about how we all continuously monitor our own actions and motivations based on society much more than before, due to continuous feedback through our phones and computers, both social media an
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by joeberon 5y ago
Climate change is demonstrably happening and already having drastic effects right now. Nuclear war is a thing that may or may not happen, but there's no sign right now that it would, so it's a distant hypothetical, much like being
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by joeberon 5y ago
1. Many people now also don't really place any intrinsic value in human life compared to other animal life or the planet in general. I.e. a lot of people don't believe humans are superior or especially worth being preserved 2. Eno
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by joeberon 5y ago
Well people are also moving past the notion that "forgoing have a children" is a comically extreme thing to do. Many young adults simply place little to no value on it now.
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by joeberon 5y ago
Because they, like many others, are extremely scared of what the future will bring to their children
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by joeberon 5y ago
For me there are three big reasons: * The pure stress of having a child, which I don't think I could handle, and the associated limitation on my own life due to that * Loss of any sense of social pressure and lack of any ideal that it
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by joeberon 5y ago
People want to have children for reasons that are more powerful than fear of the future: fear of missing out is a massive reason, also huge pressures from parents and family is another
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by joeberon 5y ago
I actually think a LOT of young people are techno- pessimistic (i.e. see technology as a thing that has ruined their lives, many people with extreme attention issues exacerbated by technology, etc.)
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by joeberon 5y ago
This was a major factor in my wife and I's decision not to have a child, second only to the stress it would put on our lives to have one, which we would rather do without (I'm not convinced I'm emotionally strong enough to de
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by joeberon 5y ago
> machine learning? Not sure why you assumed this. ML isn't the only "innovative statistical method". I haven't read the paper though. > "depression in early adulthood is correlated with dementia later in life
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by joeberon 5y ago
Definitely yes, or shut down.
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by joeberon 5y ago
Almost a dystopian, kafkaesque view of the world
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by joeberon 5y ago
All works fine for me
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by joeberon 5y ago
If you want to get it on the other side in a reasonable timeframe, yes
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by joeberon 5y ago
Well, I'm not sure what my sangha member had but she was perfectly healthy, a very active outdoors person, then she got coronavirus, and then was basically bed-ridden for about 10 months. Basically completely weak and chronically fatig
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by joeberon 5y ago
Actually I add something extra: I actually know an Indian professor who has become quite senior in the US, and is a more "famous" member of our collaboration, and he actually enjoys a "Guru figure" like perception when h
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by joeberon 5y ago
It really depends on the person, but yes you have to get to know them to know how they will react. I find that this is more of a problem in the US, where tenured professors often develop these vast impenetrable egos, while in other countrie
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by joeberon 5y ago
As someone who is often interested in buying music hardware, it is hilarious seeing people freaking out about the price of this
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by joeberon 5y ago
Maybe compared to America, but really, no, there's still a LOT of individualistic thinking here
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by joeberon 5y ago
It is easy to find like minded people if you look in the right places, but yes the democratisation of music has made mainstream sources useless as a cultural touchstone. For many people, none of the mainstream areas have any emotional impac
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by joeberon 5y ago
Yes but caffeine is socially accepted while psilocybin and marijuana is not. Further, caffeine makes you more productive as a worker whereas the latter two could even make you want to leave the work system entirely.
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by joeberon 5y ago
That is a lot less than is required for many illegal drugs
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by joeberon 5y ago
I think generally it is anxiety, but I have also experienced paranoia. That is, usually the feeling is "I feel really bad and worried and I think something is going to go wrong", but there have definitely been a few times where I&
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by joeberon 5y ago
I think it starts to get dangerous from 1 to 2 grams depending on body weight
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by joeberon 5y ago
Just because it can easily kill you if you overdo it doesn't mean the effects are such that it should be illegal. Basically, the effects of caffeine are very mild, until you are dead, but the mild effects of caffeine are culturally cel
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by joeberon 5y ago
Caffeine is very dangerous even at low doses. It doesn't take much to literally kill you.

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