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You are on the way to the religion pill

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 ta…

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 …

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 whe…

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'…

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…

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 rea…

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 h…

Bingo

Then the whole system will crumble. Good riddance, I say.

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 collin…

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 wi…

Maybe if Noam Chomsky was a pop artist instead then people would have figured this out before.

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.

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 gam…

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…

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…

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 …

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 tho…

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…

Please share the practise of noticing and unlearning the judgments! Sounds intriguing.

What made you feel like something was wrong and that you needed to go see a professional for help?

How did you realise that something was wrong and that you needed to go to the doctor?