Congratulations Taimur! I started following you from your pod with your brother and was super interested in your foray into tech with a math background. It's great to see Causal take off over the years.
These damn math folks are out here trying to make everything multi- dimensional
Agreed. It's best to see a professional on the best approach for one to take with regards to controlling addictions. It's hard to have an unbiased perspective of your behaviour when you're under the spell.
HealthyGamer on YouTube has excellent material on video game addiction. I imagine his actual therapy sessions are great too judging by the videos of his sessions online, but I don't know how feasible it is to get a therapy session with him.
Increase value for the shareholders taken to it's logical extreme. Just gotta increase the perceived value to the potential bagholders so the current bagholders can wipe themselves clean.
Possible answer to the Fermi paradox: the intelligent life self destructs.
I always imagined this to involve some spectacular explosions or mass war or lasers, etc .
But in our reality it's possibly going to be the men becoming recluses and jerking off to their AI girlfriends instead of choosing to act like leaders and keeping everyone in line so we can carry on to see the spectacular version of self destruction of humanity.
For now I think only a small percentage of men and women will choose to opt out this way. Similar to how most people prefer a physical book over ebook, digital love will not be the preference.
> Possible answer to the Fermi paradox: the intelligent life self destructs.
Although if robotic AI girlfriends become more real than real by using various kinds of supernormal stimuli [1], to the point where actual humans look fake, I can see this happening.
The Century of the Self. The individualistic attitudes have snowballed in severity over the generations to what we have now and probably have encountered many times in the past. You can't champion for being free to make individual decisions against the norm without acknowledging that lots of people will be making bad irreversible decisions. The norm was developed and able to propagate for a reason!
It's just that those who align strongly with a religious collective will consist of the majority because those values tend to allow humanity to exist for another generation to play another round of the infinite game of life and evolution. What the individualistic attitudes (taken to their extreme) solve for is to play at most a couple of rounds, but have a lot of fun to compensate for sacrificing the long term.
