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I would think that it scales, but that effectively practicing "highly skilled, non-naive good faith communication" is very difficult, and requires a lot of practice and honesty. It…

This is the kind of comment a very boring person would make

I'd suggest you try meditation. It does not bring you instant happiness, but slowly brings about a sense of wisdom and peace that really resembles long-term happiness

> we also do have a strange narrative surrounding exercise and weight loss that I bought into This narrative is pushed by the fast and highly-processed food industry. MacDonalds is…

So sad to see a somewhat wild area got uglied with a shiny, propane-powered mansion. Poor birds will just fly away from this spot

It seems you are over-generalizing. Maybe people are not like you. > People will absolutely leave your company if they think they can get paid more elsewhere. Maybe you will. Maybe…

Why are you so agressive to the comment you're responding to ? Why do you refuse it the benefit of the doubt ?

I think both you and the guy you replied to are right. It is just 2 aspects of life. What matters is how do we want to live life ? Do you want to accept that everything is pre-deci…

For those interested in the flow state, I became convinced that this is the kind of state achieved while practicing Zazen meditation : https://zmm.org/teachings-and-training/medita…

As you're speaking from your own experience, have you already worked in an Amazon warehouse ?

> people die during work, and it doesn't indicate any wrongdoing on any part. Yes this may be true, but it is not relevant to the article content, where clearly it seems the workin…

Would you maybe like to elaborate on what was the details of the "guided" aspect of your sessions ?

To me, this simply shows how inequal the american society has become, and how the stock market amplifies it. You can have an impact on the real economy with stocks. Look at what ha…

In my experience, it helped me be better comfortable around others. Both having it easier to send good energy to people I liked, and not caring so much about being judged by others…

But everything else is _never_ the same. Once you're paid more, you move into a bigger house, have more needs, and without knowing it you're just as tight on money as you were befo…

If you're open to try new approaches, meditating may help.

I too plead guilty of not having at all a deep expertise in this area. But this makes me think of the myth of AI achieving "General Intelligence", ie an intelligence adapting to li…

_barely_ here embodies imo the difference between knowing theoretically "yeah I can do some bad sometimes", and really feeling it in your guts, or your heart, rather than your head…

Try using reason to explain the taste of an apple to someone who has never tasted it.

LSD alone does not create any violence, it does not bring any evil into your mind from the outside. It mostly shows things that usually stay in the unconscious part of our mind. It…

Honestly, as someone who took that kind of substances, this is not terrifying. This is actually going out of denial, and really just seeing ourselves just the way we are. Agreed, w…

So, let's allow to launch a few more satellites in order to set our observatories on the far side of the moon ?! How much ? Surely having only 1 or 2 would require a planetary cons…

I do not know anything about drugs, but I searched for "heroin", and was brought to the "Diamorphine" page, which seems a bit different. Regarding your request on unit tests : do n…

> He's rejoined and left the industry multiple times. [...] Jackson could also do with some self-reflection. Changing your mind about something is a sign of open-mindedness, not la…

It's more that it requires to leave the mainstream system, because the fertilizer and pesticides that destroyed your soil are the money-making machines of "Big Ag" corporations. Re…