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I love that you had five kids. Kids are wonderful and our population is declining. You’re doing the best thing for yourself – and the best thing for society.
Is it? Or is he a monster who brought 5 beings into a existence of suffering? https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/is-life-actually-wort...
Society is sick, let's face it, and technology is largely to blame. We just can't see the danger in technology so long as we're blinded by everything shiny. Human beings are primarily social beings and no, that does not mean peering at each other through the alienating window of a mobile phone screen. In 1969, at the age of 9, I could be left to play with my friends and wander several miles from home without any sens…
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I love that you had five kids. Kids are wonderful and our population is declining. You’re doing the best thing for yourself – and the best thing for society.
Is it? Or is he a monster who brought 5 beings into a existence of suffering? https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/is-life-actually-wort...
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How people find online communities that aren't so terrible that loneliness is preferable is beyond me. Of course, that's also true of meatspace communities, so maybe the problem is just me.
My recipe is trivial: look for people who are clearly brighter than me, and follow them; continue recursively with their friends as you get introduced. This gave me a few brilliant real-life friends who I first had met back in the day e.g. on LiveJournal when it was still alive. Heck, I met my wife online, and proposed online, back in 20th century. We're still happily together.
...wait, that sounds like I mean that I think I'm really super smart. That isn't the case, I just don't meet many people, and those that I do meet I don't think are clearly brighter than me. The ones that are, usually don't really seem interested in being friends, so whatever.
Turns out these things aren't so simple as random people on the internet claim.
Umm, 25 here. All my friends are in the same age-group (21-29) and every other weekend we party like crazy. Sure, it's no longer the drink-until-you-puke type of party that we had when we were 18 (yes, in Europe you don't need be 21 to buy alcohol, 18 will suffice). It might be due to the fact that I also live in Barcelona, which is known for its parties. As far as how I was raised - umm, mom gave me a beer to try wh…
> All my friends are in the same age-group (21-29) Your friend group is millennials. This article is about Gen Z, a decade younger than most millennials.
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What do you think is benefit of fighting that pink? (Full disclosure: I hate pink and was shocked too over how much of it grandparents and such forced on us and in what way. But I am still curious about your reasons. )
This is a pretty charged topic, and it's difficult to make the case unequivocally. In our family, it got to the point where people were emailing research papers(academics and doctors in the family) back and forth and Christmas was ruined. I don't have time to cite all the papers on both sides of this, but for us(my wife feels even more strongly about this than I do), it came down to the realization that AT BEST all t…
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My recipe is trivial: look for people who are clearly brighter than me, and follow them; continue recursively with their friends as you get introduced. This gave me a few brilliant real-life friends who I first had met back in the day e.g. on LiveJournal when it was still alive. Heck, I met my wife online, and proposed online, back in 20th century. We're still happily together.
Problem is that people clearly brighter than me are not easy to come by. ...wait, that sounds like I mean that I think I'm really super smart. That isn't the case, I just don't meet many people, and those that I do meet I don't think are clearly brighter than me. The ones that are, usually don't really seem interested in being friends, so whatever. Turns out these things aren't so simple as random people on the inter…
Try to frame it as an engineering task of a graph traversal optimization. Also, you have to be open; no people are going to check all boxes. Limit the filter to really important stuff.
Nothing new under the sun ... ___________________________________________ Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce. The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books…
> As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. spoken like a true hermit....material objects cannot replace human connection...the author of that quote is escaping that harsh truth which I'm sure he realized towards the end like so many others that came before h…
Nothing new under the sun ... ___________________________________________ Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce. The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books…
I'm not sure I would agree with this statement. I think there needs to be a balance of both solitude and human interaction, and that balances differs from person to person. I’m definitely more introverted but it doesn’t mean I don’t need human interaction. An example is that I play a ton of video games, one reason is for the solitude, but I also enjoy board games for the social component. At the core of games, I love…