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@ZenSwift Great Idea, I think about the same, but with the work phone and the freedom phone;)

tl;dr: either you choose something easier before Hofstadter or you have to fight yourself through - word by word, concept by concept. The second approach is less likely to succeed but 10 times more rewarding. - generally I'd advice use kindle for foreign literature, it has a dictionary to whatever language you want to learn - another approach by a friend of mine (I believe you are a german nativespeaker???): - regarding Hofstadter or hard stuff in general... you need to invest huge chunks of time for getting the concepts behind the works... a sentence can take days of thinking or to let it sink in.. I remember reading Harry Potter at 9, Tolkien at 12, Marx and Adorno at 17, then Kant at 22 or so... each time it was super hard at first, but finally I came to a new quality of reading and really understanding. You'd think Tolkien??? But for me it was back then a challenge. You (and me if I'd study Hofstadter) would challenge like a 9 Y/O reading Harry Potter for the first time. I'd struggle withvthe English Names: Dursley. Vernon. Dudley. At Petunia is kind of easy. etc etc you get what I'm saying? My first book in english I read cover to cover was 'the time machine' probably also at age 16 or so with my tutor. It's in easy english but... Every sentence I needed to look up stuff, it was hard work. Then we tackled Harry Potter 6 in English and I couldn't get myself to work through it. Same with movies, back then it was hard, now I like the english original with some rare slang or accent, say NYC Queens-South Jamaica or Irish or some British Dialect. But it took work..

@Hardkill Forget running, he might not be able to walk for more than 2 minutes in 2024^^

@EugeneTheSage yes, I'll plan to do it twice a year for the first year and depending on the results every few years that reminds on that guy who donated 5 times blood in one day... not good lol

Hey, thought about how I phrased it and I want to let you know that you did the right thing. You realized it early and then started to transition out. I just hope that the ex-criminal won't get into troubles if he is not guilty.

Will you do another test at the end of winter? I do one in one week and I think I'll do it to see what happened when I changed my diet.

@Jannes Just what I thought would happen (not exactly opening parcels, but some unintelligent actions)... now you get your study. Would you please keep updating us? I'm interested in what will happen to the ex-criminal co-worker and if the Boss will be convicted.

That is so. No. Become a Business owner, over 90% chance to loose everything and maybe 5% to get out financial free. I personally wouldn't recommend it unless you are skilled enough. You can roll the dice, but why make the gamble even more risky by not preparing? Yeah, but is it likely you succeed with splitting yourself in half? No. Most likely it would be better to just pick up a part time job and focus on college thus graduating earlier. This is where a rare skill comes in handy. If you are a craftsmen or programmer your only struggle is to not spend too much money on stupid stuff. I guess you are able to do nothing of worth, so you get jobs like waiter or clerk. <3

@mmKay Thank you very much!

@Nilsi Reminds me of me Law 28 of the 49 laws of Power: Act boldly: "Lie boldly: By acting boldly you can hide your weaknesses. Con artists know that the bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed. Audacity distracts attention from a phony story’s inconsistencies. "https://www.shortform.com/blog/48-laws-of-power-law-28-enter-action-with-boldness/

Sry too hear that from your dad, you know my dad died 2 months ago. Regarding your friend... We in my german Town have a slang word for it: Weg gewichst. He is weg gewichst, meaning we has lost the juice of life. Living just for the hedonic treatmill. Often when a man gets into a relationship he loses his backbone and becomes just lazy and complacent. That seems to be the case. Can you tell him upfront that you think he is destroying himself and the friendship slowly?

Vaiting in vain? We were all there, my friend.

Say it it conscious. Will you then be ashamed of the sites browsed in front of you macbook?

@StarStruck Why are you in treatment again?

My man! It's a serious flaw if someone has no inner defense mechanisms for this... And if Tim 'I was once working at Vice Magazine' Pool is on it, is has to be low level..

@hyruga Without looking it up, who is Ghân-buri-Ghân?

@thepixelmonk thanks you for the inspiration anyway, I was taking a break from brainstorming for the topics for my next videos and I should do something about free knowledge management. love! @Rasheed That reasoning is like to say why should one live if one forgets most of what one does. If one only thinks of books as a means to an end one misses the point I'd argue. Same goes for thinking you need to remember everything. Maybe it's from school? Ain't nobody comes in real life and demands a 3 page essay, which has all essential points covered, by the end of next week. For example I read 'Eat to Live 1' from Elijah Muhammad and all I gathered from it was 1. Eat no swine (I'm a vegetarian anyway) and 2. Eat at best one meal a day or ever other day. Why should I remember the not relevant stuff?

What?

Perfect example of 'going for the gimmick'. Get this software and you are world class in no time! Yeah, you give over your precious notes to us, strangers, for money but who cares about this anyway. Besides we are trustworthy (tm) What our Software does? In principle the same like Office Suite. It's revolutionary^^ It's not the Software, it is the discipline. PS. OMG that's literally a advertisement for Notion - see what I mean?

What makes a good man? To answer the above Question we need to define what we mean by 'man' because different people interpret this differently. One could argue, that the biological gender is what counts, other that it is the sociological gender what counts. To make this easier we go by the sociological concept of gender. Further I define that we are talking about relatively liberal but still somewhat traditional roles for men (and woman). Let's call this practical and propose that the vast majority in the west (tm) is living like that. I can't make any realistic Ideas about other Cultures or groups of Cultures in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania - at least not without researching in depth on the topic. Next thing to ponder is what 'good' even mean. 'Makes' implies that a man can do certain things to make him more good relative to other action. There are likely bad actions, neutral ones and good ones and all in between. But what can 'good' mean as in 'being a good men'? It could imply a very relatively code of honor, a set of rules like the ones that are instilled upon men in religions like Islam. It also implies a moral. We can delve into this and make a set of actions a man often fulfills (earning money, raising children, be social in a group of men, be a role model to other men...) and think how one would need to act to be morally 'good'. I don't do this right now, but we can collect some things from this thread. It could also mean something that is not in the realm of morality, most notably being good in survival. Every ability and sub-skill is a means for survival if you think about it. The better a man is in a valuable skill, the more 'good' he is for a given group. Let's say you are somewhere in the middle of the US in some giant forest a Park Ranger which guides you would be very beneficial to you. He is 'good' at what he does. Of course - doesn't that applies to women and other who don't identify as men? Can't they be 'good' in that sense? Of course they can. However it is implied that through the male body, tradition and psychology they are more suited for certain tasks. Most notably men cannot near children and are not as likely to raise them as women. In a Society where we division the Labor a man is more likely to have a time advantage compared to the average woman. So the answer of this is: A man is 'good' to the degree that his skills make him and other he cares for able to survive and thrive.

Don't you see how statements like this brings you a lot of disdain and rightfully so?

*grabs popcorn* I wanted to say this. Why is a Thread on this important Topic so weak? I contemplate now and post something useful later.

@NoSelfSelf Nice, you were anticipating where I was going with that Question of mine. An IQ Testresult is nothing to brag about, except mine which is out of scale (calm, I'm just kidding^^), it's just one Instrument to meassure abilities with a certain probability. I suppose after one Standart-Deviation above normal there is less and less value in the result. Basicly it's just useful to see if someone score more than one Standart-Deviation below, which is actually a concerning Information. But yeah, totally stupid how many people think IQ determines success totally.

@Girzo You are right. Obviously Tate is an foolish Guy who somehow had the luck to get never humbled. I guess it comes from him being able to fight like a god compared to a average person on the street. There are people who act cocky, attract problems and end up changing their behaviour. I think Tate is beyond the point of no return, he will let nothing humble him at that point. However Tate is an interesting case study for the contemporary taste of a lot of people. How bad do you need to have it to pay Tate? Is there really no one who could fill the void for man? His video were entertaining for a short time, like if you watch Jackass. Both is stupid behavior, you don't copy it. I think Functionals come up from time to time, by that I mean people who serve the Zeitgeist and Channel some wish of the people for embetterment through themself. It does not need to be a good person by all means - look at Tate. Peterson was a Functional back in the day. I copied the Idea of Functionals from a book of Sergej Lukianenko.

@NoSelfSelf Well suppose one rejects IQ Tests, but is stupid without knowing it - is that possible as well?