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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 11
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    What is the most trivial event that would drain your resilience and make you go “life sucks and universe hates me”? And how would you objectively rate it on a scale of 1-100 where 1 is a paper cut and 100 is say an aggressive terminal cancer diagnosis? Eg: “lost phone, 15/100”

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 11
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        The scheme seems to be confusing people. The subjective scale is binary, how it feels: from ok to life-is-hell. The objective scale is your assessment of badness in the range of things that could happen. If the answer to “can this get worse” is “yes” you’re not yet at 100.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 11
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        Some days a 4/100 event can put you in a life-is-hell mood, other days, you’ll laugh off even an 85/100 event

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 11
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        This is confusing and I should clean it up. Will do it if I play more with this.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 11
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        Spoon theory people are in a state where say the 10th event is the hell-switch event no matter what the sequence of 10 events is. Fixed price psyche economy.

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      2. Alex Boland‏ @interpretantion Jan 11
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        Bad taxi ride- 3/100

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 11
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        Really? That would put you in life-sucks mode?

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      2. safe Moon satellite‏ @sadmoonanalog Jan 12
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        I actually hate this question because I think overall quality of life will have a lot to do with stress tolerance.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 12
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        That’s what the question is meant to probe. Low quality of life means lower levels of objective stress will knock you out. Straw that breaks a camel’s back etc. Or what we call marginal sensitivity analysis in systems modeling.

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      2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jan 11
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        Cancer might not be 100 https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1215719391163142144?s=21 …https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1215719391163142144 …

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        “I kind of like it,’’ she wrote. “I have been the most impossible person my whole life, and now I no longer have to make excuses. Now I’m just like, ‘I have cancer.’ And people are like, ‘By all means, ruin our lives. Wreck the house.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/nyregion/elizabeth-wurtzel-gen-x.html …
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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 11
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        The number is rhetorically some sort of objective measure of severity in my model even if it doesn’t cause the most severe subjective reaction. Also it’s not a single event but a complex one whose implications sink in over lots of more concrete events as it progresses.

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