Category: Psychology and wellness
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Breaking down yet another simplistic meme
Logically this makes sense. But there are actually some basic problems with it. In physics (as a metaphor) I could explain it as the entropy problem: no matter what we do to increase how organized and coherent things are, entropy (useless disorganization) of the universe always increases. So we can know as a general principle…
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March 1, 2022 essay on rent seeking and the cloud
Editorial note: I found this in my archives and have not proofread it in depth yet as of 9/11/23. It will be posted on schedule without further editing if this hasn’t been edited out. Wrote another essay… probably too long for where I meant to put it. Haven’t edited much yet either. Thoughts? (On rent…
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How do I deal with the state of technology and culture now that I understand the neuroscience behind it?
I am still really struggling with this information, what to do with it and how to not just be a crazy crackpot retreating from society. If you’ve been following my posts lately, you’ve seen me talk a bit about themes of manipulation and the neuroscience of arousal and anxiety. The neuroscience knowledge underpinning these ideas…
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Amydgala activation, and why there’s no healthy way to consume social media.
Executive summary: Social media platforms like Facebook etc ultimately have one purpose as a business, which is to sell your attention span to advertisers. They are not concerned with your health, and there is no regulation that compels them to restrain their behavior. They know from data that people are better consumers, specifically in that…
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Update on my Facebook presence
I thought that I had already posted this, but just to TikTok I guess. Here’s the video link: I’m gonna summarize this as briefly as I can, though off the cuff because I didn’t think to prepare a post before cell service. For years, one of the core struggles in my mental health has been…
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“I just can’t understand it.”
There exist two different ideas, which I will spell out here explicitly: Sometimes, when someone engages in a course of action that I hear described in a particular way, I cannot comprehend the line of logic that would lead a person to do that. There is no emotional input I can conceive of that, through…