monissiddiqui

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by monissiddiqui 11mo ago
You are on the way to the religion pill
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by monissiddiqui 2y ago
Congratulations Taimur! I started following you from your pod with your brother and was super interested in your foray into tech with a math background. It's great to see Causal take off over the years. These damn math folks are out he
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
The best test for language mastery is playing deception games like coup or Avalon while speaking the language. Sorry I have no input on how to actually get to that stage, just had that shower thought one day.
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
Agreed. It's best to see a professional on the best approach for one to take with regards to controlling addictions. It's hard to have an unbiased perspective of your behaviour when you're under the spell.
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
HealthyGamer on YouTube has excellent material on video game addiction. I imagine his actual therapy sessions are great too judging by the videos of his sessions online, but I don't know how feasible it is to get a therapy session with
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
Increase value for the shareholders taken to it's logical extreme. Just gotta increase the perceived value to the potential bagholders so the current bagholders can wipe themselves clean.
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
Possible answer to the Fermi paradox: the intelligent life self destructs. I always imagined this to involve some spectacular explosions or mass war or lasers, etc . But in our reality it's possibly going to be the men becoming recluse
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
I know what you mean, but 90% is too low. The Century of the Self. The individualistic attitudes have snowballed in severity over the generations to what we have now and probably have encountered many times in the past. You can't champ
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
Bingo
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
Then the whole system will crumble. Good riddance, I say.
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
Sword of Damocles is a bitch and a half. Access to infinite pleasure is ineffective in the face of paranoia and misery since they don't cancel eachother out i.e they are not collinear vectors in mind-space. Having access to Aurelius&#x
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by monissiddiqui 3y ago
It's surprising how individualistic people are in developed countries. They are literally self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool! Just goes to show "smart" does not mean wise. Apparently making sure humanity doesn&#x2
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by monissiddiqui 4y ago
Maybe if Noam Chomsky was a pop artist instead then people would have figured this out before.
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by monissiddiqui 4y ago
Positive sum games >>> zero sum games. The solipsistic individualistic mindset stems from the zero-sum game system IMO and that's a larger social and biological issue.
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by monissiddiqui 4y ago
Not GP, but the underlying problem to me is repeat zero-sum interactions in a crony capitalism based system. All the shit stems from the winners that emerge from these repeated games making short term decisions to either allow them to exit
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by monissiddiqui 4y ago
This is known in the running community as the MAF method or Zone 2 training and it is key to sustaining an injury minimizing habit of running. Think about it this way, do you enjoy a nice long walk? Most people do. You also don't have
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by monissiddiqui 4y ago
Here is a very relevant podcast episode on what you are talking about. I enjoyed listening to this one a lot and am a fan of the podcast in general. https://deepfuture.tech/podcast/video-games-optimized-learni...
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by monissiddiqui 4y ago
You will live a life of misery if you constantly compare your life to others' lives. Take it a step at a time and try to be better than you were the day before. Carmack lives in a different time, under a different environment with a di
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by monissiddiqui 4y ago
You gotta dial in your sleep, exercise and diet first. Consult professionals about sleep, diet and exercise issues to confirm you are in a sustainable and effective routine. If those three fundamentals don't improve anything, you shoul
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by monissiddiqui 4y ago
The iron law of bureaucracy in action. > Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people": > First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the o
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by monissiddiqui 5y ago
Please share the practise of noticing and unlearning the judgments! Sounds intriguing.
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“What Makes You Alive? Is Life Even Real? – Physics vs. Biology” on YouTube(youtu.be)
2 points by monissiddiqui 6y ago|0 comments
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by monissiddiqui 7y ago
What made you feel like something was wrong and that you needed to go see a professional for help?
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by monissiddiqui 7y ago
How did you realise that something was wrong and that you needed to go to the doctor?