Showing posts with label rationality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rationality. Show all posts
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Protect Your Slack, Delay Moloch: Why You SHOULD Defend Yourself With Artificial Rents

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Inspired by Behold the Pale Child at Secretorum : "the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards Bakkalon." (or Moloch. ...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Lists of "Bizarre Beliefs" Reveal Difference Between True Belief, and Tribal Team Cheers

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tl;dr Many truth claims - beliefs - are actually just tribal team cheers, or emotional signals, with the propositional verbal content merely...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Addiction Has Three Types: To Pleasure, Flow, or Meaning

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Positive psychology research models happiness as reducing to three components : pleasure (chocolate, sunsets and orgasm), flow (losing your...
Friday, January 3, 2020

For the Rationalist Community: More on Why Choice of College Doesn't Matter That Much

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After I wrote the last post (telling people college choice doesn't actually matter much in terms of happiness in life ) it struck me how...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Ranking of University Attended Does Not Correlate Well With Adult Well-Being

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More on this in a Q&A format in the post right above . It's worth understanding the relationships between the multiple statistics...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Complex Dynamic Systems Like Cells, Humans, and Nations Cannot Avoid Cycles of Paroxysmal Disillusionment and Suffering

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The following principles apply to any dynamic complex system, including organisms, individual people, or organizations - corporations, natio...