Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)
by mementomori on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:17PM
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This is the core of my own development: seeing the world and life in this world (or even beyond) as an unbounded game rather than a zero-sum game. A lot of times it's the perspective that matters. Maybe at times when we are overly focused on the "how" of optimization and lose sight of the "why," the human mind/body/soul becomes unable to metabolize it, and flips out.
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Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)
by heimatau on Sunday November 22, 2020 @08:01PM
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>when we are overly focused on the "how" of optimization and lose sight of the "why,"
I have full agreement with you except the quoted statement above. I would actually rephrase this to say: when we are overly focused on our own solution then we lose sight of other coherent variables/solutions that we didn't take into account. Some call this myopic, among many other terms. All our decisions don't exist in a vacuum, no matter how convincingly the perspective is.