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Understanding the concept of the self
The importance of living in the present moment
The illusion of control
What does it mean to be "normal"?
One sense of "normal" is statistically normal: what everyone else does.
The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best.
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What is progress?
Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. When the thing we want is something we want to want, we consider technological progress good.
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Acceleration of progress
The rate of progress is accelerating, which means that an increasing number of things we like, will be transformed into things we like too much.
The closest thing to "things we like too much" is the colloquial sense of "addictive".
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Addictiveness is increasing
The world is more addictive than it was 40 years ago. And unless the forms of technological progress that produced these things are subject to different laws than technological progress in general, the world will get more addictive in the next 40 years than it di...
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How to prevent addictiveness?
The more things we like will mean more things we have to be careful about. Most people will not be careful about addictiveness, unfortunately. This will result in a new normality, which will define people by what they say no to.
An important thing to note i...
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I have always been careful about addictions in my life and I think this article is a great read for anyone trying to understand why the world is becoming more addictive and how to protect yourself.
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What does it mean to be modern?
What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this pu...
Advice For Reading Scientific Studies
When we read scientific studies, it helps to keep in mind the following:
- Scientists are prone to error just like everyone else.
- Single source claims are dubious.
- There is a lot we don’t know.
- We should not be biased towards a particular outcome.
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Risk is what you don’t see
The risks we talk about are seldom the most important in hindsight. The real risk is what no-one sees coming. For example, September 11th, Pearl Harbor, The Great Depression. These events surprised nearly everyone and instantly shoved the world in a new direction.
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