what do you mean by “consciously maintained delusion”? what’s the delusion here?
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Yeah, it's really important to recognize that the same phenomena exist on and are explainable in dramatically different ways on different layers. Evolutionary psychology trips up a lot of people — maybe most — this way
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What we do is in some sense "because" we're a self-replicating biological organism resulting from many gens of reproductive success. But that does not really help us figure out how to be happy and playful and nice to each other, the layers from which reproductive success emerges
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"high social status" corresponds to high dopamine schizophrenics typically have delusion systems that assign them a significant role (paranoids matter so much the secret masters of the world have to devote attention to them personally) schizophrenics have very high dopamine
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the practical direction here is figuring out how to convince oneself that one is high status; that would negate the need for actually *being* high status, which tends to be kinda high maintenance as far as i can tell
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I really think this can be as simple as frontloading the (often long) search for genuine interests, pursuing those interests with a sense of purpose, and ideally a few of them so you're always operating in a few different hierarchies
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