people will allow you to perform pretty much arbitrary spells on them if you encode those spells in the form of either music or fiction
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I have developed a technique which allows me to hijack the mind of anyone, anywhere and turn them to my own nefarious purposes--
oh wait it's just writing, never mind guys it's just writing. I invented writing
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same energy:
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me: jogging is dumb, i have no motivation to get to my fake destination
me: i should get someone else to chase me, that's motivation
me: [a few more thoughts like this]
me: shit i just accidentally reinvented sports
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same energy:
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me, musing:
I want to have a thing… where other people can invest a bit of time & energy in it, in a way that feels good to them, and that generates money, that they could have some of…
also me: "sir, that's called a company"
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same energy:
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these are all good and valid and sometimes it's helpful to reinvent things accidentally so you really really understand what they're good for
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feynman recommended something like this iirc!
I think the Gleich biography mentioned that he once prepped for an exam by deriving everything he had to know from first principles.
Almost failed the exam though iirc 😬
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This reminds me of some problem set in an undergrad physics class, where I totally forgot about the reduced form of some formula and spent like 5 pages fumbling around re-deriving in when it should have been a plug and calculate problem.
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