CronoDAS! You are trapped in a bad equilibrium, but there is no reason to believe you will be trapped in it forever. It is obvious to me that you are a thoughtful and intelligent individual. I would bet my life on the fact that you have false self-limiting beliefs. Keep experimenting in life and one day you will realize you’ve left that bad equilibrium.
Eh. I tend to agree with CronoDAS. Not that he’s objectively right that one is better off escaping from the world rather than dealing with it, but that his utility function is really screwed up by most people’s standards, and that “correcting” it is extremely difficult. It’s not at all simply a matter of self-limiting beliefs. In my case, at least, it’s a matter of a great deal of adverse conditioning that took place when I was raised, and maybe a bit of bad genes. It’s a matter of accurate assessments about the world being more emotionally disturbing to me than for most people, at a level more basic than that of beliefs.
Meh. Join the club. I tried to tell him the same thing (too sleepy to look for the link right now) but he wouldn’t listen. But maybe there’s some different nuance in the way you said it.
CronoDAS! You are trapped in a bad equilibrium, but there is no reason to believe you will be trapped in it forever. It is obvious to me that you are a thoughtful and intelligent individual. I would bet my life on the fact that you have false self-limiting beliefs. Keep experimenting in life and one day you will realize you’ve left that bad equilibrium.
Eh. I tend to agree with CronoDAS. Not that he’s objectively right that one is better off escaping from the world rather than dealing with it, but that his utility function is really screwed up by most people’s standards, and that “correcting” it is extremely difficult. It’s not at all simply a matter of self-limiting beliefs. In my case, at least, it’s a matter of a great deal of adverse conditioning that took place when I was raised, and maybe a bit of bad genes. It’s a matter of accurate assessments about the world being more emotionally disturbing to me than for most people, at a level more basic than that of beliefs.
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(Note that I’m doing better recently, finally having found some meds with a decently strong placebo effect.)
Meh. Join the club. I tried to tell him the same thing (too sleepy to look for the link right now) but he wouldn’t listen. But maybe there’s some different nuance in the way you said it.