Back in the old days, when we lived in an information poor environment, people were still pretty amazing at recognizing patterns. But these patterns were built on limited data points, as most people only had their own personal experiences to pull from. As a result, … Continue readingThe Good Ol’ Days
NEWS: Read about single extreme case scenario and generalize to all seemingly similar scenarios. Feel panic, feel fear, get angry, empathize, remain hopeful. Murder, rape, racism, corruption, drug epidemic, new highly contagious virus that will kill all of humanity. Lock your doors! Close your minds! … Continue readingThe News
The operating system you choose to run once you have escaped your environmental programing is what will determine the conditions of your life. Those who believe otherwise are destined to become slaves to the ideas and machinations of others. The only thing you truly have … Continue readingEnvironmental Programing
Societies function optimally when the behavior of their citizens can be predicted and manipulated. This allows for long-term planning and large scale efficiencies. Because of this, it is beneficial for societies to create a mechanism that encourages you to derive a big part of your … Continue readingYou Are Not Your Job
The world is the best that it has ever been, but the average person wouldn’t know it. This is partly due to us all getting fed a steady diet of fear and negativity from almost all media outlets. Regardless of political affiliation, your personalized echo … Continue readingPathological Scarcity of Gratitude
Controlling, structuring, organizing. We spend a great deal of time and energy trying to convert the world into a predictable and reliable machine. But in the end, chaos is the driving force for most events; the innumerable variables that work tirelessly outside of our conscious … Continue readingCHAOS
Efficiency is building ONE road from place A to place B. Why spend the extra money to build two or three roads to the same destination? Building one road saves money and time (in the short term). This is the logic of short-sighted individuals: politicians, … Continue readingEfficiency
Even in a fully deterministic dynamic system, if you have enough variables that are irreducible, you will be unable to predict future states of the system because the rate of change of the system will outpace the rate of computation/modeling of that system. Therefore, you … Continue readingComputational Irreducibility
Anyone can buy things. All you need is some money. But you can’t buy a skill. You have to develop skills over time through hard work. One might say, “but you need skills to make money in the first place.” That’s often true but doesn’t … Continue readingTrue Wealth
Just because your opinion or view is in the minority, doesn’t mean its wrong or that you’re insane. In fact, most people have no opinions or views of their own. They simply regurgitate what their respective authorities have told them and indoctrinated into them. They … Continue readingMinority Opinion