Love him or hate him, but Elon Musk is pretty much the only god-tier person in my table who has yet to suffer a non-trivial puncture event. The pedo-guy thai cave rescue thing came closest, but ultimately didn't puncture.
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Aside: in visualizing the metaphor of the puffed man, think in terms of a figure made up of individual bubble cells, like bubble wrap/stay-puft marshmallow man, not a single large balloon person.
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"We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it"
I'm genuinely neutral on people who reach for god-tier. I feel no urge to either worship them or actively attempt to puncture them. I mostly just reach for the popcorn and watch, and try to stay out of their way.
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It's a sort of kindness to try and help people identify their right level on the 4 dimensions of godding (there may be more or different ones, these are just my first stab), but once people begin to overreach you kinda have to step back and let events take their course.
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There's a clear "tell" when people try to launch themselves into regimes where overreach risk increases rapidly. A sort of "I'm gonna go for it" launch narrative that's unnecessary when you're in not-overreach zone.
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I think it feels and presents like mid-life or late-life imposter syndrome. In early 20s imposter syndrome is almost never about overreach, simply inexperience. By 60s, it’s almost always overreach. In between, it’s a gamble.
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That sounds unrelated. Like a genuine ignorance of what it takes. Not a psyche management issue.
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