Is it just me or is this year full of what seem like unnecessary events? Like not even unforced errors, just shit that seem to have no upside for the people doing it?
Putin invading Ukraine
Trump hoarding documents
Musk buying twitter
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It’s a Cipolla stupidity year
“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
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There’s been other smaller stuff, but throughout the year I’ve found myself going
“Whyyyy? What possible upside do you see here? And it’s acboring and painful shitshow to boot that can’t even be entertaining”
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Or maybe it’s me, and my reward function is narrowing to the point I don’t see mysterious utility people are getting out of stuff
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Any other examples you’ve noticed?
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Ah yes. Horrendously unnecessary own goal
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Liz Truss tax cuts
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Theory. The future has gotten so overdetermined in the last few years, with so many forced moves, high agency addicts got frustrated and flailed in an attempt to feel any sort of alive.
Agency is a kind of addiction that makes waiting for meaningful options seem like hell
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Sometimes it makes sense to do stuff just to shake things up. But sometimes it’s just futile frustration blowing itself out.
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Ah yes. Horrendously unnecessary own goal twitter.com/gribbly/status…
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the way I see it, the world is so peaceful in 2019, the world leader itself the one that bring the world to chaos



