I know how ridiculous that sounds on paper, intellectually, but I suspect this is how my subconscious thinks about time+energy. V low-trust
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(I do intend to fix this, and have been working on it for years. It's harder than quitting smoking or social media.)
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It's interesting to think abt how things like this shape who I am as a person. Eg I'm obsessively curious about the inner world's of others
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A big part of this is because I often feel like functioning in normal human society requires more effort for me than for other people
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That's a very naive, solipsistic and ignorant worldview. So I try to falsify it. Been 10+ years. Insufficient data for meaningful answer :p
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I often ask friends to introduce me to anybody that they think is similar to me. Oddly, in 10+ years, no close matches. I can't be unique
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Part of my motivation to build a large body of written work online is really to use it as a beacon to attract people similar to myself
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Doesn't really work if that's your goal. People do not read people they are similar to. They tend to read complementary people.
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Yeah I guess I'll settle for complementary people then
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Your body of written work must contain novelty. So far it is catching up to the prior art: summary of an autodidact. http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ …
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Oh god I hate that phd=circle thing
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