yeah, it is simultaneously true that many people are too risk-averse to their own detriment and that it is still very possible to take risks that result in catastrophic unrediable costs
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*unremediable, ugh pre-coffee tweets
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a very, very tragic thing is the population of people who take their own lives directly or via e.g. opioid addiction due to a loss of meaning or a chronic intolerable anxiety over loneliness or poverty, conditions that IMO can only be mitigated via powerful self-sustaining hope
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it's not anyone's "fault" for falling into such despair, but I think we could all be part of creating a culture that's protective against it — a better social safety net is part of the answer, but without a visceral hope/optimism accompanying it, it's not sufficient
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my current thinking is that a balanced structure of practical activity and consciously maintained delusion is how this is addressed; the problem is it would appear to be impossible to propagate this idea while propagating good judgment about what delusions to have along with it
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mass scale life coaching does not seem like the most practical intervention
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oh, wait organized religion. i've invented organized religion
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thanks, i hate it
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