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And now, I disagree with you ;)

Humans being manipulated is not, in and of itself, a hint that things are going wrong. If a car can be stolen, should it be stolen ? If a dog can be beaten, should it be beaten ? I don’t think because something is fragile that it should be broken, on the contrary. We should recognize the delicacy of our species and design around it. That’d be a sign of evolved behaviour , I’d reckon.

the #1 enemy of most people is their own mind Again, define the « mind ». Is it really the mental space people live in that is the problem or the culture, teachings, bullyings and programmings that have been thrown at them since birth that are maladaptive ? I’d argue that the mind is fine, given what it can do and that it is just a tool. It is what we do with it that matters and since birth, we’ve been hijacked to fit in society.

The result is most applications were severely dumbed down to work on a smartphone.

Good point, and it could be argued the user soon followed that dumbification, with youngest generations not even understanding the file/folder analogy.

I think we can go dumber ! Why need an analogy at all ? It will all be there, up in your face and you can just talk to it !

What a weird analogy.

The content and services provided by AI still needs those humans behind. Maybe when it’s all AI agents talking to themselves, this would make sense, but before that, someone has to write, edit and choose that content.

How can you say publishers are obsolete ?

An interesting read !

I feel the call of the Muse, and always try to negotiate because, well, I need money to live. To me, creativity feels like a laser I can point in any chosen direction.

Want to make a SAAS ? Sure ! Here are a dozen ideas ! Want to write a Sci-fi short story ? There you go, have your pick between those ! Want to make a video game ? Oh boy, have I got the concepts for you !

Then, it's the execution part. The one I never really got right...How could I focus on just one thing ? One thing to make, when the excitement is long gone ?Until I noticed that if I choose a good project, good in the sense that it feeds my soul, helps my fellow human beings and sadly, not necessarily that it will make me money...It's easier to stick to it.

In the end, the Muse wins. So I just stick with them, and who knows ! Maybe I can buy a beer or two with their fruits :)

US Only ? Would Canada work ?

I think the key for me, a lifelong messy person, was to find out what I like or don't.

Like : -Taking notes on the fly for capturing fleeting ideas. -When working on a project, embracing the mess by having as many documents/spreadsheets as possible. -When a project is over, putting everything in a folder and letting it there.

Don't like : -Using fancy tools like Notion, Obsidian and the likes. -Getting stuck on rigid systems, and even worse : tied to a subscription. -Being forced to use a specific device.

My solution ? Upnote. Proton Drive. A messy desktop.

Am I the most "optimized" I could be ? No. But I can quickly find out everything I need fast, and when I'm working on a project, I know what to do.

More than that seems overkill, for me at least.

Yes ! I like it even more when you consider the brainwaves that deal with...frequency...hmm...

"If the music I dance to doesn't arise from the radio, it seems to be suspiciously well correlated with the radio.

I think the music I dance arises from the radio."

Yes, it must be the tea and the coffee, not the lack of fat, corn and other sugars, the daily physical activity, the community or even the geographic settings.

Yeah.

Doctors must hate them !

our DNA has been shaped by nature, not stories. Interesting point, I believe the opposite. Or, let's say, that stories have much more impact that DNA on our behaviour/thinking models.

Religion, money, appartenance to a tribe outside of immediate family, all of that are stories that we adhere to. Hell, look at kamikazes : a group of people willingly destroying themselves (and therefore, their DNA) for the perceived well-being of a larger imaginary group, "their countrymen".

No, I believe animals can and do predict their environment, but we differ because we can adhere to a layer of information that is on top of what we can observe : call it collective subconscious or myths, but this is information that helps us do more.

Well…if you present stories, for sure we gonna make chapters out of it. Or beats, even.

I wonder what the results would have been if people were showed documentary footage with no narration ? But my suspicion is that just like we sometimes see human faces in places they clearly don’t belong, structuring information in a story format (beginning, middle, end with rises and falls in between) is an intrinsic part of how we process.

Maybe it’s not so much that we like stories, but that we see stories everywhere and the more information takes this digest form, the more we feel at ease ?

I don't know. It just feels nice to fly, for once.

Vaccines are now being used in some places - but monitoring the disease and avoiding mosquito bites are the most effective ways to prevent malaria.

You’d think vaccines are the end-all be-all and the only reason we ever eradicated any disease, but I’m curious now : what makes certain diseases eradicated with vaccines (like polio, supposedly) and others just…go away (like malaria or even scarlet fever for example?)

Fate, Destiny, Logos, God(s), and so on...

It seems that for most of History, we personified luck and lived along that knowledge that something someone wanted some things out of that collective human experience, and thus was guiding events and people to a goal.

I'm wondering what we lost by trying to explain that. For sure, religions and mythologies are still here and kicking, but I'm curious if "Science" will ever get to a point where stuff like this becomes as trivial as "Well, it's God's Plan, I'm just the character in their cosmic drama".

WHat happens when the character want to change the story themselves ?

That’s the promise that initially brought me to the article, and I like the reason of the article. I’m just not sure I got more info from the title than the content of the article itself. But that is maybe just me, another fellow psychologist.

Oof. What was the point of that article ? It felt like an unnecessary tough read.

I see, we are from the same cloth !

Depends at what age you'd ask me that.

Harry Potter 4 was the first book I binged when I was a kid. Lord of the Flies was the first book that made me feel weird emotions, and I liked it. Snow crash is the book that made me think "Fuck, how can one write a book like that ?" and therefore started what I hope to be a lifelong hobby. I still think of Flatland from times to times, as I'm jealous and amazed of the brain of its author.

Ok, I want to be your friend.

Surprised as how such basic stuff gets "discovered" now and then. For all the toot of science, how come it took us that long to realise such a basic (in appearance at least I'm sure) fact ?

Lord of the flies.

This could have horrific consequences for the recipient Like, he could live ? The point you are trying to make is unclear.

Journalists don't want to inject their own judgements into articles, which is admirable, and makes sense.

Is it even possible ? Like, don't you know the political inclination of any website/journal you read ? I feel like this search of "The Objective Truth" is just a chimera. I'd rather articles combine pros and cons of everything they discuss tbh

Never understood how using meta analysis constitutes any form of legitimate research. It always to me felt like trying to make a mix of "discussable" studies, like a bouillabaisse or something.

Maybe it's because I hate fish, I don't know.

My book. Halfway to the first draft !

Until AI companions actively argue, tease or are straight up disagreeing with you, no, we won't. It's part of the learning to converge all of our reality tunnels together. How can I learn that when I'm stuck in my echo box ?

He is sick. This is the work of a sick person. He even knows that he is sick but does not care, because of the sickness. I pray for his audience, really.

What's this about the Squid Game video and the half a mil lost because of the "waiting in the sun" ? Did someone die ???

How long until you are part of the conversation...?

Thanks for sharing. Really refreshing take on HN.

I suspect I have something similar to yours, but on a much, much lower degree : a "voice" that tells me things with an opinion of its own.

Well, the way it manifests for me, is that it is not a voice. More like, I can ask myself questions and my body (more often my head) will react in a binary way. Like just saying yes or no. It is useful for Tarot, which it pushes me to take certain cards or not and make divination fun for me and others around.

It does not know the future. It changes its opinion. It says it does not want to cause me harm and so far it hadn't, but because it changes its opinion I don't believe it 100%. It seems to "prefer" things from others. But it is not me. It seems that it "reacts" faster than me, which brings me to think that it's some sort of intuition or "id" or whatever.

Personally, I live with it through the concept of Daemon, like the one Socrates had. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimon But it is just a binary one.

Also, funnily, I asked it if it had a name. It said "no". I asked it if it wanted a name. It said "no". So there's that. It reminds me of Venom in the recent movies, minus the "eating people" part.

"For those who understand, No explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, No explanation is possible" Ziad K. Abdrlnour

But, I enjoy the arguments you brought forth, so let me try some more :)

The assertion that an immaterial thing exists, but its existence and any effect of its existence are utterly unobservable, is no different from asserting that the thing does not in fact exist.

The "unobservable" part here is where we differ : I had subjective experiences that no one could ever, ever deny happened that prove, to me, that spirits exist. Now, when I told my friends about it, they did not believe it. Mostly because drugs were involved. I get it, I would have said the same before the event happened, but now, it totally changed me as a person.

So-called quantum changes exist, inside and outside the context of drugs : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15048692/

So life is effectively purely material. One may assert that there is an unobservable unsensible immaterial reality, but this assertion is ultimately meaningless to us.

I find funny that for the most part of humanity, your view would have been deemed incorrect. It was mostly after the so-called Enlightenment that we have globally accepted this as true, but take any being from the year 1500 and below, and bring them here, they would deem us crazy. Are we truly more evolved than those cultures of yore ? Is our world driven by advertising, mental crisis epidemics, ultra-processed food and commoditisation of everything really gives us the right to call us more evolved, and therefore, to say that our view is more correct than the ones before ? More and more I don't think so.

But again, that's the beauty of my system : it encompasses yours. You don't have to have faith for the spirit world to engulf you, and you may give it several names, like "luck", "randomness", "coincidence", whereas my system will at least try to give it meaning, and therefore connect it to something.

Both work !