This is very insightful. Time is short and maybe we should all follow the advice at the bottom of the page and “connect with him on LinkedIn”
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#32I’ve been thinking something similar to this as I lost one of the closest people in my life a few weeks ago. People have been living and dying on this rock for thousands of generations and no-one alive today remembers any of them. Even the most immensely successful people to have lived just a short while ago - all of the John Rockefellers and the Andrew Carnegies of the world - are remembered only insofar as their na…
Money does buy time? With money you don't have to sell your labour at exploitative rates.
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#33This is truly only if you're a materialist. Does not apply if you believe in reincarnation.
Believing in reincarnation does not make it true.
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#34I see ChatGPT has entered the "I am 14 and have deep thoughts" stage. AKA Musk mode.
Tbh I'm not seeing anything in the delivery here to quality it for being sneered at, or compared to Musk. Perhaps it's easier for some to mock a reminder like this, than to reflect on it. This is one of those truths that's worth remembering, and deeper than it might seem. "All conditioned things are impermanent — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering." - Some 14yo I guess, idk
I mean, Buddha was a spoiled princelet who had an overreaction to discovering that not everyone shared his privilege. In many ways he’s the archetype of I’m 14 and this is deep.
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#35This is very insightful. Time is short and maybe we should all follow the advice at the bottom of the page and “connect with him on LinkedIn”
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#36I was expecting this to be about AI timelines or something. This is not very novel or interesting to me. Besides, it's not as if there's no plausible way to extend lifespans enough that I could live until 2123.
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#37This is truly only if you're a materialist. Does not apply if you believe in reincarnation.
Believing in reincarnation does not make it true.
Not believing in it does not make it false. We are all made of earth and after death we go back in earth and then born again. So in a sense reincarnation happens but without the memory.
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#38Kind of painting a bad picture on getting lost in the journey of dreams IMO. The relaxing, enjoying small moments is just getting lost in that. It's probably closer to a balance and just living committed to your decisions, no ragrets. If I went fully one way or the other I probably would be wishing I attempted the other a bit more.
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#39I was expecting this to be about AI timelines or something. This is not very novel or interesting to me. Besides, it's not as if there's no plausible way to extend lifespans enough that I could live until 2123.
There is literally no plausible way to extend your lifespan another 100 years.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Believing in reincarnation does not make it true.
Not believing in it does not make it false. We are all made of earth and after death we go back in earth and then born again. So in a sense reincarnation happens but without the memory.
Burden of proof hasn't been met. May as well believe in lizard people living in the center of the earth.