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Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

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Re: Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

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Post by datphp »

baby wrote: post #88
datphp wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Causality (in which most people believe, even though they never abstracted it far enough to realize the implications)

Causality doesn't imply you have no control at all in your life.

Yes it does, it means every "frame" (yay video games terms) of your life, including the complete state of your mind, is a cause of the previous "frame".

Every decision is a product of your experience and state of mind, that are the product of you previous decisions, that are the product of your previous experience.. something, something!

Re: Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

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Post by lgieron »

Tloewald wrote: post #50
lgieron wrote: post #44

Seriously, THIS is the advice that you'd give to, for example, your son? Views like that (both the content and the form that was used to present it) are a great example for why lots of people see the techies as detached simpletons.

What, you don't think that your main life decision was whether to be comfortable, well-off, or mega-rich?

It's not that hard - orienting your life around becoming rich is clearly a trap and, as for the remaining two options, it's better to make more money than less as long as the job doesn't suck too badly.

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Post by robobro »

girvo wrote: post #53
theorique wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Seneca and Aristotle never wrote SEO-optimized 7 item listicles or produced YouTube linkbait. "This crazy Greek drank Hemlock. What happened next will blow your mind."

Oh crap. Imagine BuzzFeed but for ancient philosophers and classic literature. Awesome.

I would throw up.

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Post by fromdoon »

JimWestergren wrote: post #85
f_salmon wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And there's a major logical error in it: > At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again. This implies that you have some sort of control between the start and the end - which is completely untrue, because: What genes you get from your parents and in what environment you are put will determine everything that will happen in your head…

Well, I'm at the opposite scale of thinking. I think that inherited genes and location only plays a smaller part - but it depends on the person. For a normal western person my personal belief is that it is less than 10%. I am a strong believer in free will and it's what makes us so different than animals. Animals have insticts and very little free will. The thing is that if you believe in free will you have more free…

>> but it depends on the person

And what makes the person? A Person is an amalgamation of inherited genes and collated personal experiences. Most of the personal experiences are a direct result of your location.

I think it is very important for us to go easy on someone who has gone astray or in our opinion is not living a life the way we think it is ought to be lived.

A Person who is a firm believer in free will would not judge anyone or for that matter force his/her view on anyone else.

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Post by robobro »

sz4kerto wrote: post #36
onion2k wrote: post #22

Every time I see an article like this I just want to grab the readers and shout "Read a philosophy book!" to them[1]. Literally every point in every article on how to live a happy life was being made by the likes of Seneca and Aristotle thousands of years ago, and there are good reasons why those writers are still the foundation for philosophy today - they were right. [1] I would recommend something like "Philosophy…

Agreed, and I'd like to add that there's a reason why a few thousand years after Aristotle (and the rest) we still don't know a good recipe for a happy/whatever life.

I like the social contract, Marxism, Schopenhauer's writings, what we've learned in psychiatry, and so on...

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Post by charlieflowers »

baby wrote: post #69
alecsmart1 wrote: post #20

Nice. Can also add- Cheat codes: There are no cheat codes. Or if you want to be controversial- Cheat codes: - Find a rich partner - Win a lottery - Get born in a rich family (random)

I thought reading books was a cheat code? A lot of people try to figure out things by themselves, and some things have to be understood by oneself. But a lot of things can also be understood in books, or by listenning to the experiences of others that have failed where you are trying to suceed hundred of years before you.

Reading skill-building books is like grinding orcs for two hours to get to the next level. (Reading fun books is another mini-game. Every now and then, you can find a book or 2 that is both fun and skill-building, which is more fun than any game I've ever encountered).

Re: Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

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Post by fromdoon »

I find this very interesting. Most of us who have crossed the 25 year mark, would already have read/seen something like this.

But this is an awesome way to teach some valuable lessons to kids. The analogy of life to a game is something that is clear, simple and pretty intuitive for a growing kid. Since most of the kids these days have played some games or other.

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Post by rikkus »

onion2k wrote: post #22

Every time I see an article like this I just want to grab the readers and shout "Read a philosophy book!" to them[1]. Literally every point in every article on how to live a happy life was being made by the likes of Seneca and Aristotle thousands of years ago, and there are good reasons why those writers are still the foundation for philosophy today - they were right. [1] I would recommend something like "Philosophy…

Aristotle thought that women had fewer teeth than men.
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