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I think there are two unethical aspects to this: Firstly, less money spent will harm the economy, and, secondly, if lots of people do it, the system will adjust to lower salaries u…

Such intrinsic interest to that extent was sexually selected for, so we're doing it only because of that. That's all I'm saying. Intrinsic motivation makes sense to learn about the…

I'm not smug. I'm concerned about dysregulation due to ignorance of basic motivational drives.

Long-term planning/deferred gratification. You were setting up a career as a source of status later in life.

I think it's accurate. There is no doubt about it. I also don't see that there is anything is wrong with it. I think you have simply internalized modesty memes, but that ultimately…

You risk getting bad reputation if you don't care about your offspring and social environment. People care about their reputation to be socially included (because that enables acce…

> Obviously, you're only saying that to get laid, so who can trust you? That's correct, but why would that reduce trust?

Either it's a flaw in the engineers (lack of social skills to admit a mistake accurately) or in the working climate (fear of unreasonable repercussion make the engineers defer disc…

Quitting is embarassing, certainly often locally a downward slope on the status landscape.

Some individuals are perhaps purely intrinsicly motivated, but I think it's a very tiny minority. I also think there is a good chance that intrinsic motivation itself is a status e…

Most normal people decide at some point that math is not for them in order not to embarrass themselves by claiming competence in a domain in which they are not confident at all. An…

On the upside, the dying process of oxygen deprivation seems to be quick and painless. https://jme.bmj.com/content/36/3/174

Would someone be willing to provide a brief summary for those who cannot watch the video at the moment?

What does your magit workflow look like?