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Mr Eugenides
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Toiling at ledgers in a city grey…

Before he died, Carl Jung was asked if the human race would make it.

“Only if enough people do the work” was his answer.

And so we beat on, boats against the current.

Interesting.

I imagine the biggest threat to a tyrant is revolution.

Struggling to think of one wherein the people overthrowing a tyrannical leader were literate (accepting that the instigators may have been) and healthy (however we define that).

Don’t try and convince him.

Save a small amount regularly for him and when he’s ready and ‘gets it’, or when fiat goes totally mental, you’ll have a starter amount ready to send.

I’d guess he’s been reading ‘Inner Excellence’ and it’s great to see.

Nah. This says more about the OP than a whole generation.

My kids are Gen Z and they’ve been to plenty.

I’m in the UK though, which is a failed state, so that could explain it.

Keep the Ferrari man in.

The ETH soy boys will think it’s Vitalik.

Agreed. No one who is serious about consciousness or studies of the mind would ever entertain FMRI data.

His fundamental error imho is that he conflates non-dualism with solipsism and it’s fairly common among the Harris, Dennet, Dorkins crew.

Once you’ve planted your flagpole in the materialism camp you have to perform increasingly elaborate sleights of hand to get round the hard problem.

Wait until they realise that their beloved science is just discovering that space and time aren’t fundamental.

Even if he was right about Free Will (and there are interesting takes on either side of that debate) what he misses, quite spectacularly, is that any clear thinking person should and would always act *as if* they had free will.

He’s so blinkered he can’t take the next step.

Sheffler, Morikawa, Aberg and Hovland.

Some each way (top 5), some to win outright.

I’ll eat my hat if that’s actually Alan Watts.

Good AI though…

alter for better or worse?

Depends where you are.

I can’t hold my pension fund money in pure BTC, and I can’t access those funds yet - so if I want to link them somehow to BTC (which I do), I can buy the shares of companies who hold it.