Almost exactly 5 years ago I lamented about pop-morality It was essentially a call for: -not making morality a fashion accessory -starting to take seriously morality by first quietly doing the right thing in one’s own life, rather than running one’s mouth about it and parading it to the world, like a fashion accessory indeed …
Author: Janus
Engineer Your Models Of Reality, Or Stay Stupid
If you ever studied anything complex — you know it is necessary to gradually develop one’s understanding complex like physics, math, respectable chess ranking, Even less complex subjects you don’t learn overnight, like driving a car Why would your own ideas be any different? Ideas and opinions and views Why would they magically develop …
“Feel Good” Ruins Depth and is Stupid; Also It’s Good
Life is sweet and life is exciting and life is scary and life is painful and life is short and life is crazy To not make it quite lovely and wonderful is a kind of strange perversion, a malfunction of the mind and spirit To pretend it’s not quite painful and short and …
Darkness Is A Proxy For Truth
Life is bright and life is dark We fear the dark, obviously Fear of course distorts perception We experience an urge to go where the fear is, where the darkness is To pursue the truth Where it’s most concealed In the dark You’re going to die, You are not going to …
Winning Alone Makes You Clueless
To approximate reality — you must measure it Measuring is done AGAINST something. It’s all relative E.g. cat is small next to a wolf, but large next to a mouse If you only win — you’re measuring only against mice Which is great You get the information what you’re LARGER than But you get …
Living Is The Value
Life itself is value Living (=surviving) is what begets worthwhile experiences Some moments are less than that Often only for you to overcome and then feel even greater joy and appreciation and satisfaction But sometimes just to perish Slowly or quickly There’s really nothing more You’re in for some ride Do your best then …
Reason And Emotion Are a False Dichotomy
Reason and emotion are a false dichotomy I observed that emotional is often put as antithesis of rationality, This is wrong, it doesn’t have to be You can remain sensitive — while being rational and reasonable But yes, emotional agitation is typically inversely related to rationality BUT it’s only a correlation, not causation Likewise …
You Misattribute What “The OBVIOUS” Is (And Therefore Fail The Debate Before It Even Started)
In any matter there’s the: BASELINE / CONSENSUS / PARADIGM Sometimes it’s simple to gauge, sometimes not Sometimes the consensus of the mass is obviously the reflection of the current state of the technology/culture/economy/politics, e.g. that cars are the default means of transportation. No secret knowledge on the matter that disrupts the consensus Sometimes …
UNLUCKY Overstate The Role Of Luck — LUCKY Understate The Role Of Luck
The unlucky overstate the role of luck The lucky understate the role of luck It boils down to incentives, and even to epistemology (theory of knowledge) On the extreme — the extremely lucky has NO DATA invalidating the role of HIMSELF, and something SPECIAL about himself — in his exceptional outcomes He is, …
do it MEDIOCRE vs PROPER vs EXCELLENT
Let’s consider the stages from SHIT to EXCELLENCE: poorly, mediocre, properly, excellently (robustly), too well POORLY will fuck you up almost immediately -the wheels will fall off -you’ll be late by 3h -MULTIPLE things will magically go wrong -everything is of obvious poor quality visible to the naked eye -unpleasant in taste -really dangerous, …