Loads of junk "here's how they do it, and you can too!" content out there, and most of it is worse than uselesshttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998797622461710337 …
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IMO, we're trying to fill the gaping chasm where master apprenticeship used to be with a bunch of productivity hacks duct-taped together, largely gathered from writers and guru types who have the audacity to think they can reverse-engineer what they can't do themselves
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Speculation: the rare individual — usually someone polite society would consider creepy/obsessive/maladjusted were they not so damn successful — accomplishes what you can't bc they somehow survived to adulthood with the "I actually care" portion of the psyche miraculously intact
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A *lot* of people are pasting hack after tedious hack over a set of deeply ingrained mental patterns that roughly equate the cognitive equivalent of shuffling papers and coughing conspicuously with "trying"
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For sure — though in this case, possibly the larger (related) issue is that wider society only acknowledges a few interests worth having, so you have a bunch of legitimately stellar experts who just happen to be obsessed with WWII planes or whatever
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Caring for others is important, obviously, but not so much for oneself. However I think that the key parts that have to survive are: 1. Not minding what others think, and 2. Curiosity.
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Caring for others is *super* important for risk mitigation (e.g. in the form of local social safety nets), and you'll *really* need that if you have 1 & 2 in abundance
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"More and more people back then, and not just Andrew MacIntosh, had found ensuring the survival of the human race a total bore." -Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos Gold-plated heroes who see our inexorable thrust to super intelligence
@ESYudkowsky CARE & must feel massive frustrationThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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