People mistake “good enough” for NOT good enough and people mistake NOT good enough for good enough A thing has attributes If you need something for its particular attribute — all things that have that attribute are good enough Optionality however, the extra potential utility — doesn’t make it better now — but …
Tag: Psychology
The Software and Hardware of Mind
There’s a computational theory of mind Maybe it’s right maybe it’s wrong It’s cute, philosophically But isn’t it profound practically? Your results are downstream from your actions, which are downstream from your mind Isn’t your mind quite like a computer? We speculated about our nature since time immemorial But aren’t computers some of …
Why Do You Get Drunk and Dumb?
Why do you get drunk / high? And why, as a result, you become an even dumber cunt? So there’s the gain to be derived, One would be the good emotion that it brings Another could be the liberation from inhibition Inhibitions of course exist for a reason At the extreme: having “no …
Real vs Fake vs Drunk and Repugnant
Being NOT real (fake) is disgusting because: -then you’re IMPOSSIBLE to be trusted. you’re unknown (real you is unknown) -and unknown comprises both good and bad. -and the bad is not worth risking, if you can have the good instead, from someone else +It also reeks of incompetence and worthlessness. Otherwise you wouldn’t try to …
Sincere Care vs Sincere Learned-Care vs Insincere Care
You look at a thing / person / idea / phenomenon, and you CARE, or DON’T care You can choose to CARE in which case you will provide that thing with more attention, more effort in your actions, more thoughtfulness and respect in how you consider that thing, and it can result in some …
Fuck Your Neurosis
Your problems give rise to thoughts and emotional states Thought is how you abstract, strategise, plan Emotional states is how you execute The problem is then solved… or isn’t, who cares Thought should go away, emotions should calm But like most things in nature — there’s a certain momentum to given phenomena, a hysteresis, …
Modest In Understanding, Cautious In Action, Yet Utterly Arrogant In Speech
-your relation to most things is that “YOU DON’T KNOW” -and you know that you don’t know — because you could test it -you could test your understanding by making predictions -you could BET on your predictions -but you don’t. You know you’d lose Every action you take is a bet on certain state …
Conflicting Desires Have You End Up Empty Handed
We have conflicting desires We’re not aware of that conflict As a result, we reconcile them sloppily examples: We may convince ourselves we don’t really want something. We may reject something because it’s “not good enough”. We may even resent something, if we can’t have it. Of course if such is our reconciliation …
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 …
The “GRADIENT”, The FUZZY LOGIC of Various Problems
Many problems can’t be broken down to chains with finite-state nodes: -e.g. 2-3 options here, then 2 options from there, then another 4 options, etc. -with each step having an OBJECTIVE SOLUTION, for given ends Instead it’s this network of INTERCONNECTED nodes, with most things fuzzy (but NOT indeterminate) -each node falling SOMEWHERE on …