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How do you know it's not making you more happy?
I have this handy rule of thumb: 98% of everything the humans do is a terrible idea. Go figure, the odds of random contamination of our brains, being a good thing
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I have this handy rule of thumb: 98% of everything the humans do is a terrible idea.
I used to think something like this. My phrasing was “90% of everything is shit”, but when I realised it was one of those ‘laws’ (Sturgeon's law), after a few years, I realised it wasn’t a particularly good way to think about the world. Figuring out why things exist as they are, and therefore what specific changes could be made to alter those particularities is a more rewarding path. It’s led me to love a lot more than 10%, given the extra context, and at the same time has given weight to ideas that underpin better forms of social organisation, founded in trust and minor optimism rather than isolated cynicism.
(I’m not saying you’re not doing the same anyway, i’m just spitballing)
Not related to brain plastic, obvs, but this is the wtf thread so…
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How do you know it's not making you more happy?