@RayDalio Great article Ray, thank you for posting. Do you think breakthroughs in productivity / GDP growth from AI could be another way out of the downwards trajectory seen in the US? If we assume political polarisation continues but the state's tax revenue is significantly raised.
The idea that you should't aim for happiness directly is cope. Anyone who has mastered jhanas knows you can aim directly and feel ecstatic joy on command.
@MiniUlisse In traditional therevada, stage 3 of the 4 stages to enlightenment involves completely ending craving, main one is sex. Mainly this happens when the meditator sees again and again that the pleasure of jhanas is higher and comes with fewer/ no downsides compared to sex
@Shireh0dl We will cross that bridge if it comes to it. In the meantime we can not compromise on bitcoin as money for enemies and completed transactions being sacrosanct. If a committee can freeze coins retrospectively, how does it differ from USD?