other mechanisms, including state action and nonprofit action also reshape problems in unexpected ways, but it’s harder to make the leap of faith that on balance they’ll have a net positive effect
that doesn’t mean they’re off the table, just more subject to hostile scrutiny
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the big problem with state and nonprofit mechanisms is that their fans won’t admit that they have as much or worse indeterminacy and externalities built into their operation
there is an illusion of determinate agency around them
the stronger the illusion, the worse the effects
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the older I get, the less of a stake I feel in big problems because the likelier it is they’ll stay stable/slowly degrading in my lifetime, and the easier it is to focus on my own narrower interests, and at most concern myself with general potentialities over specific mechanisms
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one way I like to reduce this to individual mediocre human scale is to ask what’s at the intersection of effectiveness and non-misery at every life-stage?
unlike Chosen Ones™ mediocre humans can’t be effective while miserable (though they needn’t be actually happy)
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more to the point why bother?
non-misery gives mediocre people something to fight to protect, giving them a reason to be part of the solution rather than the problem, and without coercion
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Chosen Ones™ are different for whatever reason
maybe they are geniuses, or were bullied as kids, it doesn’t matter...
you can model them as psychohistorical mules, random anomalous events that seed positive or negative potentialities that reshape the Big Problems Stack™
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mediocre people I think should simply try to keep personal misery at bay, but in a broad-minded way, and differently at every life stage, reflecting the stakes of every stage, because if you’re miserable and not a Chosen One™ you’re almost certainly part of the problem
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0-18 your best bet is probably skills development
19-35 probably long-term thinking because you have the positivity of youth to overcome the the negativity burden
36-50 probably support/catalyze positive potentials that are developing in your lifetime
50+... ask me after 2024.
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This age based mental orientation reminds me of Ashrama concept and feels like waterfall model
Here's me in agile😝
0-18~Basic skills bootcamp
18-22~College sprint
22-24~MS / Migrant sprint
24-30~Banking sprint
30-31~MS#2 Spike
31-35~Non-profit sprint
35-?~Startup sprint
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Orthogonal to Chosen One semantics.
Tranquil Aphorism : Non-radical rethinking to keep everyday misery at bay.

