A prayer does not (and cannot) change reality. So is there any use in praying? I would argue there might be.
Masculinity
What is it to be a man? I have come to believe that the cornerstone of being a man is the ability to suppress. Suppressing emotions, well captured in the old saying “men don’t cry”, is hardly news to anyone. The suppression I have in mind is more significant than that.
Willpower.
Oh, what could you do, if only you had a strong will. Or rather, what could you not do?
What’s the point?
Well… That is a depressing question? Who, in a clear mind, would ask that? This simple question is one way ticket to depression. What is the point of me, getting up in the morning? What is the point of me eating lunch every day? What is the point of living this life?
Surroundings matter.
Going back home can be especially hard if the surroundings there are set for a different kind of you.
Easy life.
Easy life. You wake up, you go someplace, you do simple work, you go back, you have some fun, you go to sleep. Who can really say their life is hard? Especially of all the people that can read this article.
On the illusion of Safe AI
I cannot silently take it anymore. One more LinkedIn post about the need to implement safe AI and I would burst. Let me please logically explain to you why so called Safe AI will not happen. No matter how much anyone tries.
3 – OD’ing on soma
In the Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave new World, there is a drug, called soma, that does precisely that what is in my opinion impossible. It silences the bad within and gives way only to the good seemingly without any hangover or withdrawal effect.
Life is a game
What used to mean to me just a thing that gamblers say, has become something more in my recent thinking. It is a simple idea that everyone is just a character in a game. An interesting paradox that I see in that would be…
2 – Escapism
Why are people constantly wishing to escape reality? Is it only happening to people that are somehow not satisfied with their life? Or is it only about fun? Is anyone escaping to a shittier reality then they live in?