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I'm aware: I was inviting your thoughts (this is a cramped space for a debate). For mine, reading Lacan directly is a chore (post-atom bomb academic arts can have a "use all the co…

What's insubstantial about Lacan? There seems to be enough in there to give D&G, Zizek etc careers (as well as inspire a bunch of compelling media i.e. The Matrix)

I think time perception is contingent on cultural and lifestyle factors, I don't recognise it in my own life. My twenties (chaotic) lasted forever, now in my 30s, this last year in…

It's not exactly GEB: there many paragraphs that are really just lists of things to go and look at deeper, and are therefore skim-readable (or a useful list of search terms). The c…

In my personal experience new knowledge tends to beget questions.

Again you speak completely arrogantly, you have no idea what decisions I've taken in my life, no, none of the list, and yes, ones that involve significant threat to life. I specifi…

Right, it's not like such "do this awful thing or do that awful thing" scenarios are constantly relevant in medical, the government, or dare I say, military decisions. You need to …

While I'm detecting you feel strongly about trolley problems, I think it's fine to discuss them, and I really don't see why you need to try and shame me for providing an example of…

As it happens I'm neither an EA nor much of a utilitarian, in the traditional sense, probably closer to a Christian "post-rat". I'd be hard pressed to say that it's worth killing a…

He has some great essays and research pieces and has fostered a generally nice community of people who grew out of LessWrong. There aren't many places online to talk about those th…

Intentionally wiping almost all of my obsidian vaults and accidentally wiping my 2TB HDD was the most freeing thing. I'd amassed so many books and papers and notes and half-finishe…

There were other timers before (one was basically a digital scale), but the cost and number of units of this timer model was certainly a huge boon. That said, there were some excee…

This is suspiciously low quality for the top of HN. That said, I do recommend "How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? Or Effective Way?"

My experience with them doesn't quite fit either: I've primarily used LLMs for giving me hints when I'm struggling with a leetcode problem or similar. They're surprisingly good at …

Right, so we can just completely ignore the symbolic/iconic importance. I don't know why I've seen Instagram mentioned several times already but it's recognition as a place of sign…

Premature optimisation is the root of all evil :) I was very much in your place a few years ago - the most flexible and responsive and useful place to have most planning is in your…

The thought you had is affecting your meta thought about being affected by a negative thought, my friend. All your body does is process information that passes through the brain an…

What a throwback. This was one of the few websites on speedcubing available back in 06/07. IIRC there are a few prescient sentences about advancements to cfop which came to life as…

Magical practice (and occultism and gnosticism in the wider umbrella) is such an interesting phenomena. So many modern activities are connected to or quietly very influenced by it,…

Ah, I though I was talking to a political zealot, thanks for confirming. You clearly have no reference for the experience of a severe addiction and how reduced access and affordanc…

Absolutely baffling take. I hope you never get seriously addicted to anything or your mindset that "it's all willpower" will destroy you.

Have salaries ever tracked inflation, on average?

Peaks: Speedcubing (top 10), classical guitar (comp level in my youth), couple of major games (top .01% recently in one, top .1% a while ago). I wish that I had learned to love pro…

Love doing something so much that noticing what you are bad at and putting attention into picking up your performance in that area comes naturally (inspired practice is more effect…

Depends, I took economics modules at University, and that was the only subject where the mandatory course textbook was co-written by the module leader. Well, co-written is strong: …