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I'm aware: I was inviting your thoughts (this is a cramped space for a debate). For mine, reading Lacan directly is a chore (post-atom bomb academic arts can have a "use all the cool sciencey words" problem), but I find the Other/other and reworking of Freud's ego id etc thought-provoking.

What's insubstantial about Lacan? There seems to be enough in there to give D&G, Zizek etc careers (as well as inspire a bunch of compelling media i.e. The Matrix)

I think time perception is contingent on cultural and lifestyle factors, I don't recognise it in my own life. My twenties (chaotic) lasted forever, now in my 30s, this last year in particular felt incredibly long (it was eventful and full of change).

I rarely find myself on "autopilot". Is that why?

It's not exactly GEB: there many paragraphs that are really just lists of things to go and look at deeper, and are therefore skim-readable (or a useful list of search terms). The chapters are structured quite similarly so you get a feeling of where the meat is after a few. Works well as an occasional downtime book that feeds some good thinking away from it, IMHO

In my personal experience new knowledge tends to beget questions.

Again you speak completely arrogantly, you have no idea what decisions I've taken in my life, no, none of the list, and yes, ones that involve significant threat to life. I specifically did not use the word "entertain" for those ideas because I have firsthand experience of the aforementioned sting. There's a reason I described myself as "post-rat". Yarvin was taken seriously for quite a time and is far more well-aligned with the sorts of people and views you're alluding to. Scott's Jewish, for god's sake.

I can only conclude you're a troll with far too much time on your hands. Goodbye.

Right, it's not like such "do this awful thing or do that awful thing" scenarios are constantly relevant in medical, the government, or dare I say, military decisions.

You need to start actually having conversations with real individuals, I was giving you a chance, but I'm not bothering with it any more, except to say this: I am not "you people", I am not whatever you are projecting me to be, at all, least of all someone with a lack of moral disgust. Because I am capable of engaging in deliberate thought about awful things does not make me awful too, and I have no idea why you think that Scott Alexander is somehow the boogieman in the current ethico-political landscape, go look at Curtis Yarvin.

While I'm detecting you feel strongly about trolley problems, I think it's fine to discuss them, and I really don't see why you need to try and shame me for providing an example of where I tend to sit on them.

As it happens I'm neither an EA nor much of a utilitarian, in the traditional sense, probably closer to a Christian "post-rat". I'd be hard pressed to say that it's worth killing a bunch of people to say, save the universe. I still have had a good time reading Scott and occasionally engaging with other people in the community.

He has some great essays and research pieces and has fostered a generally nice community of people who grew out of LessWrong. There aren't many places online to talk about those things in a certain way without it devolving rapidly.

Intentionally wiping almost all of my obsidian vaults and accidentally wiping my 2TB HDD was the most freeing thing.

I'd amassed so many books and papers and notes and half-finished projects over a frenzied couple of years where the main drivers were stimulant abuse and low self-worth.

It turns out that the excitement of finding some resource that's perfectly fit for your requirements is it's own rare pleasure, and it can be harmful to make them a demand on yourself in their own right, and especially harmful to try and catch'em all

I think I'd decided to grind my way out of my situation and channelled that energy into the most elaborate resource-hoarding and procrastination. I did genuinely learn a lot but very, very inefficiently, and in such a way I was sick of computers and self-motivated learning for a couple years.

Second-brain culture definitely provides an open door to hoarding (and stimulant users). I still like using obsidian but I don't care for the various "methods", I just do what makes sense. It turns out when I enjoy the process of doing/learning things, I remember stuff about them pretty well.

There were other timers before (one was basically a digital scale), but the cost and number of units of this timer model was certainly a huge boon.

That said, there were some exceedingly smart cookies in the early speedcubing scene, and you know, necessity is the mother of invention :)

This is suspiciously low quality for the top of HN.

That said, I do recommend "How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? Or Effective Way?"

My experience with them doesn't quite fit either: I've primarily used LLMs for giving me hints when I'm struggling with a leetcode problem or similar. They're surprisingly good at it, providing you regularly remind them to provide little clues only.

Right, so we can just completely ignore the symbolic/iconic importance.

I don't know why I've seen Instagram mentioned several times already but it's recognition as a place of significant natural beauty and featuring in all sorts of media was WELL before some stupid website of people sharing photos existed.

Premature optimisation is the root of all evil :) I was very much in your place a few years ago - the most flexible and responsive and useful place to have most planning is in your head: crystallising ideas and plans and all that just makes them brittle and a sharp failure point.

Most of these organisational tools are for multi-person orgs.

Your PKM should look very 'suboptimal' from the outside. You need much less conscious control than you're exerting. Let your system forget stuff.

It's infinitely better to have something completely undocumented than almost nothing extremely well-documented.

The thought you had is affecting your meta thought about being affected by a negative thought, my friend.

All your body does is process information that passes through the brain and nervous system. Thoughts are just as primary as the senses that reflect something in the outside world. And your negative realisation was interpreted by the rest of your system as an archetypal 'bad situation out of your control'. That's being trapped, which is a very old situation for an animal to be in. Trapped animals look for a way out and if nothing yields they become inactive.

I've found reminding myself of the above helps me take whatever limited control I can of the threat (i.e. writing down and visualising what I'm going to do when I can solve it) and also taking some control of other parts of my life. You can trick your body by sending it soothing signals which are an antidote to the /type/ of situation you are in (if not necessarily actually solve it).

What a throwback. This was one of the few websites on speedcubing available back in 06/07. IIRC there are a few prescient sentences about advancements to cfop which came to life as seriously developed 'research projects' by 13/14 and nowadays fully utilised by the very fastest.

This is one of several competitive methods but it remains the most popular by far. I enjoy them all but the modularity and flexibility of cfop makes it my favourite and my home.

Thanks for the post.

Magical practice (and occultism and gnosticism in the wider umbrella) is such an interesting phenomena. So many modern activities are connected to or quietly very influenced by it, particularly therapy, along with many notable figures in the natural sciences, computer science, philosophy. It's my favourite bit of anthropology (which I seem to be drawn to more the older I get).

Some reading in this area I've enjoyed:

- Magic, Science & Religion - Malinowski

- Technic and Magic - Campagna

- Stolen Lightning - O'Keefe

- Ramon Lull (no specific recommendation)

Ah, I though I was talking to a political zealot, thanks for confirming.

You clearly have no reference for the experience of a severe addiction and how reduced access and affordances can reduce the chances or severity of relapse.

I hope you enjoy eating your heavily regulated dinner tonight before you sleep in your building-regulated abode atop your fire-safety-regulated mattress.

Absolutely baffling take. I hope you never get seriously addicted to anything or your mindset that "it's all willpower" will destroy you.

Have salaries ever tracked inflation, on average?

Peaks: Speedcubing (top 10), classical guitar (comp level in my youth), couple of major games (top .01% recently in one, top .1% a while ago).

I wish that I had learned to love programming in my teens, these things have made me happy but certainly not rich, haha. I like it but don't love it - I'm just okay at it.

Love doing something so much that noticing what you are bad at and putting attention into picking up your performance in that area comes naturally (inspired practice is more effective than 'deliberate'). Along with the intelligence to solve those issues effectively and the wisdom to ignore what's not so important. Rinse and repeat for x units of attention.

Source/flex: that's what got me into the top .01% of multiple pursuits, or into a decent percentile with not that much time invested.

Depends, I took economics modules at University, and that was the only subject where the mandatory course textbook was co-written by the module leader. Well, co-written is strong: they added ten exercise questions and some call out boxes to the default Pearson textbook. Naturally, it was 40% more expensive.

Excuse me, the Haruspicy community have gone to great lengths to distance themselves from social sciences, which they consider imprecise and subject to chance.

I would hazard that these are closer to your projections - he does mention having more time to spend socialising with his kids. You were expecting him to allay your fears about what a lack of financial resources might do. The article isn't a celebration of things he does with his kids, but an exploration of having less material wealth, hence the focus, no?

I know several families like this, generally hippies with an educated middle-class background, but without the desire to sacrifice themselves for money and it's trappings (and benefits). Their kids are intelligent and interesting people, and as far as I can see, have been given life as an open canvas, not as a paint-by-numbers exercise, which so many others experience.

The council replaced the warm halogen bulb streetlights in our area with extremely bright LEDs that have no shielding towards houses. I slept in a ground floor bedroom with a bay window directly beneath such a light for a year. Despite installing blackout blinds as best I could, the ambient light in my room was about the same level as mid-dawn the entire time. My mental health suffered intensely almost to the point of psychosis.

LED lighting should be tightly regulated. At the moment they just appear to be getting brighter and brighter and more prevalent. I absolutely despise them.

I believe Faker was the first million dollar salary in eSports on 2017, IIRC LoL moved to a franchising system for it's leagues, which brought in a ton of 'naive' capital, the combination caused a gigantic inflation in NA player salaries and a significant one in EU.

This was recognised as a bubble by veterans in the industry and talked about on various talkshows at the time.

I completely agree with your point about salaries and really just want to add that this has been expected for years. ESports is still growing, it's just the rate will seem more sane to those in the know.

Thank you, very kind. I myself am in awe of the current best solvers, the difference between my previously world-class average and the records now is massive.