many “party” in virtual worlds today. that’s setting yourself up for a rude awakening when the physical world comes knocking
we are not brains in vats.
party less, get your head kicked in more
contemplating my 20s and why everyone’s sick
if you never face real difficulty, your life will get complicated later. there is no escaping it
we did not evolve for a never-ending good time 😷
All the big techs do this. Quickest way to get banned from any platform is to start questioning their system. If users are products, this is like quality control
no amount of discipline will turn you into a machine. that's a result that many are seeking, with a feeling of lacking “balance”
the role of AI is to help you keep balance in this information overload. It’s not ideal to have a machine decide what’s better for you, but it's a tradeoff between something worse - getting lost alone and getting nowhere. we’ve reached the limits of what default human wetware can handle, and it’s not enough to keep up with the present
the world as it’s built is not ready to answer all the “why?” questions millennials and younger now ask
there was never a need to understand this much because you’d never use your knowledge
it’s still not clear how to use all that you learn from asking “why?” but it’s evident that others figure it out
there is no step-by-step if you ask too many questions. you’ll be over your head and no one will help
Will Bitcoin make all war prohibitively expensive? Maybe in the year 3000 or something. I would not hold your breath in this lifetime. It’s a win if it happens at all at some point in the future. But you won’t know if it did
cynicism, nihilism, and fiat collapse are all unstoppable trains that’ll fuel war we can yet imagine. On the other side of it all is the world the lazy dream of today
IMO, ww3 won’t happen because it’s too expected. But all other cracks that don’t annihilate the human species will get exploited by ambitious psychos
people who want perpetual peacetime have no ambition
all great nations are terrorists in their own way
I find that the idea of “money is a tool” is better than hating money, but it’s not enough. You have to develop an obsession with numbers going up, else they go down by default
never have I heard someone who defaults to “money is not everything” think out loud how to make more money.
for at least half the world's population, money is everything because they are objectively poor
for almost everyone else, it’s also life-changing, but rich societies enable laziness
most people dream about not having to think about money, but there is no easy path to get there. Best to get in the habit of thinking about nothing else, with intensity for a few years
do the work you don’t want to do
it sucks, especially if you are creative. but it’s the neurons that you need to grow in your head
just buy an apolitical car.
Redundant when smartphones ID you better anyway. Papers just make you show your face at some gov office like it’s a doctor's appointment
How was it bad? Works as expected for me + easy to automatically create login account for the alias.
Mail sent to the alias kept getting dropped for me. No allow-list changes made a difference
That thing could probably already one-punch unalive someone. It’s not even armed yet. Terrifying