I don’t think we have got the right explanation for our epiphany addiction here. We are “addicted” to epiphanies because that is what our community rewards its members. Even if the sport is ostensibly about optimizing one’s life, the actual sport is to come up with clever insights into how to optimize one’s life. The incentive structure is all wrong. The problem ultimately comes down to us being rewarded more status for coming up with and understanding epiphanies than for such epiphanies having a positive impact on our lives.
Even if the sport is ostensibly about optimizing one’s life, the actual sport is to come up with clever insights into how to optimize one’s life.
Nature of the medium, surely? This is a discussion forum, so what happens here is discussion. Actually improving one’s life is something that necessarily happens away from here. At most, it can be reported on here.
I don’t think we have got the right explanation for our epiphany addiction here. We are “addicted” to epiphanies because that is what our community rewards its members. Even if the sport is ostensibly about optimizing one’s life, the actual sport is to come up with clever insights into how to optimize one’s life. The incentive structure is all wrong. The problem ultimately comes down to us being rewarded more status for coming up with and understanding epiphanies than for such epiphanies having a positive impact on our lives.
Nature of the medium, surely? This is a discussion forum, so what happens here is discussion. Actually improving one’s life is something that necessarily happens away from here. At most, it can be reported on here.