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Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by crhulls »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #130
zmxz wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you explain how's that related to 51 ideas that are listed on the link? I'm struggling to see the connection you are seeing, can you clarify? Are the ideas mentioned worth less because you found a potential way to discredit the person listing them?

Opportunity cost. We'd do better to discuss something that wasn't GPT vomit. Especially this GPT vomit, which is not very good

The ideas are simple and not particularly unique, but sometimes a list of simple but not unique ideas, which many of us already know, but nicely articulated in one place, can spark thought.

If I took at as a deep philosophical treatise I might agree with you, but that isn’t what it is and I don’t think that makes it vomit.

Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by emrah »

> 6. Mimetic Theory of Desire: Humans are like sheep

Not quite.. We have mirror neurons, we imitate to learn (in fact just watching is sufficient) but this behavior can be overridden (thanks to prefrontal cortex) but most don't apparently

Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by pcthrowaway »

crhulls wrote: post #131
pcthrowaway wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Opportunity cost. We'd do better to discuss something that wasn't GPT vomit. Especially this GPT vomit, which is not very good

The ideas are simple and not particularly unique, but sometimes a list of simple but not unique ideas, which many of us already know, but nicely articulated in one place, can spark thought. If I took at as a deep philosophical treatise I might agree with you, but that isn’t what it is and I don’t think that makes it vomit.

These aren't even nicely articulated, they're poorly articulated and full of inaccuracies

Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by maccard »

ggm wrote: post #124
maccard wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's actually 52 intervals, they can overlap.

I can't rub my tummy in a circle and put my head precisely because I can't acquire two skills at once. Chewing gum followed walking. But perhaps I could learn to overlap these brief attempts at habit forming. It might take six weeks or so...

theres a difference between doing 2 things at once, and doing two things 3 days apart. You can take up running,_and_ walk to work at the same time.

Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by kirso »

I'll add one by collabfund that might be relevant for the crowd here:

*Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking.* There is [little correlation between](http://climatescience.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/978...) climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. That’s an extreme example, but everyone has views persuaded by identity over pure analysis. There’s four parts to this:

• Tribes are everywhere: Countries, states, parties, companies, industries, departments, investment styles, economic philosophies, religions, families, schools, majors, credentials, Twitter communities.

• People are drawn to tribes because there’s comfort in knowing others understand your background and goals.

• Tribes reduce the ability to challenge ideas or diversify your views because no one wants to lose support of the tribe.

• Tribes are as self-interested as people, encouraging ideas and narratives that promote their survival. But they’re exponentially more influential than any single person. So tribes are very effective at promoting views that aren’t analytical or rational, and people loyal to their tribes are very poor at realizing it.

Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by CapstanRoller »

>Horseshoe Theory: Extreme opposites tend to look the same. For example, a far-right movement and a far-left movement can be equally violent or desire a similar outcome.

This is terrible political ignorance disguised as "advice". Violence is the most fundamental form of influence, and is not owned by any particular political party or position, nor does the willingness to use violence communicate anything except that group's lack of commitment to pacifism.

This is akin to saying that serial killers and carpenters are basically the same because they both use sharp objects. In fact, you can equate any political position to any other, or literally any sovereign group of people, when you account for the fact that all of them have gone to war or committed some other act of violence to further their interests.

In fact, this is the Fox News/neocon Republican talking point: "anti-fascists are the same as fascists, because they harm fascists"

Does the author really think in such simplistic terms?

Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by tatrajim »

Learning foreign languages as an adult is valuable for facilitating thinking about the world in very different ways.

In my case, learning Korean in my 20s helped me understand group dynamics and hierarchies (they are built into the verbs themselves) in a way my English-language background never could. Classical Chinese gave me conceptual gifts, such as "principle" 理 vs. "material force" 氣 , and Japanese (very similar to Korean, but with important differences in nuance) the power of understatement and indirection.

Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by agumonkey »

sdwr wrote: post #18
makeitdouble wrote: post #7

hmm, starting with these two so high in the list makes it difficult to properly read the rest. > 2. Doublespeak: People often say the opposite of what they mean > 4. Preference Falsification: People lie about their true opinions Are we supposed to apply these to the 48 other ideas that he pitches as his guiding lights ? Otherwise I think more than the ideas themselves, it's a good reminder that anyone having seen eno…

#2 is the truest statement ever stated. Other examples of the form are "people say things about themselves that are really about you", or "things about someone else that are really about themselves". Indirection (and proxies!!) are cornerstones of human communication. I've found it reasonably helpful to test all strong statements through those 3 lenses.

I need to find a way to deal with it (in me and others) beside avoiding social interactions :)

Re: Ideas That Changed My Life

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Post by sifar »

ulnarkressty wrote: post #63
wenc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually changed my mind based on some simple ideas. Carol Dweck wrote a book called Mindset, which talks about two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. The idea is super simple, and you don't even need to read the book to know what it is. But just knowing that idea changed my entire motivation to do things, and now I believe that even if I'm not talented at something, I can get surprisingly far. (for in…

How do you get past the feeling that nothing you do actually matters?

There are multiple ways to look at this.

One is to stay small - the things you do matter in your individual sphere.You don't take care of your body, you die. You don't exercise your brain, it atrophies. You can increase this sphere to friends, families, community etc till you can see the effects and have feedback. Of course as in all system, those might be a bit delayed, so it helps to have some context.

Or you can go meta, why should things matter. This innate drive that we have to find meaning in all things is very confusing. Things simply are - accept them.

And if nothing actually matters at all - then you have a blank canvas to paint what you want.

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