I read a book that blew my mind a little

Re:I read a book that blew my mind a little by sirdavidof on Sunday November 07, 2021 @05:23PM (#29144134)

It's often underappreciated how _hard_ it can be to tell why you want something.

I've spent weeks thinking as rationally as I could about a decision, and with years of hindsight realised it was based mainly on what others wanted.

If anyone feels they've solved this, I'd love to hear how.

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Re:I read a book that blew my mind a little by elcritch on Sunday November 07, 2021 @07:10PM (#29144873)

It is hard.. My take is that you can't solve it, and shouldn't try to as it's effectively impossible. It's better to accept our minds nature and that we postfacto rationalize 99% of our decisions rather than rationally decide them. Instead accept it, and use that 1% that we do rationally decide to influence how you want the rest, including ambitions or emotional desires, to be over time. I mean, we're all basically toddlers on an emotional level, but with more sophisticated wrappings.

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Re:I read a book that blew my mind a little by alok-g on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:25PM (#29153124)

I feel I have, however, you may be able to prove me wrong. :-) I propose having a conversation on the subject. :-) Email in my profile. Pls. reach out if you would like to. Thanks.

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Re:I read a book that blew my mind a little by trevyn on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:16PM (#29145853)

You are a program optimized to increase human biomass.

That’s literally all that’s happening.

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