In all my years seeing psychiatrists and therapists, not one ever said, “Justin, maybe your depression and anxiety are perfectly normal reactions to your life. Why not radically change your environment, and let me know how it goes?” Never. Not once. Why?
If you wear headphones or bring your phone into the sauna / steam room you’re beyond saving. How is the prospect of 20 minutes alone with your thoughts that bad?
I have come to the perhaps obvious conclusion that accelerating GDP growth is essential.
@DOGE has and will do great work to postpone the day of bankruptcy of America, but the profligacy of government means that only radical improvements in productivity can save our country.
we’ve entered a bizarre in between era where humans are still doing most of the physical labor while ai spends its time writing poems & creating art.
machines are chasing beauty, & people are still lifting boxes.
what an absolutely ridiculous timeline to be alive in… the future kinda arrived out of order.
wrote a quick post on this.
Beautiful and so true. the amount of times i’ve internalized something that had nothing to do with me is prob ridiculously high, each one eroding self esteem. Goes the other way too, though… Operate from a place of intrinsic motivation with a strong moral compass
Either humanity reaches Type 1, or all known life goes extinct.
Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Life on Earth is 3.7 billion years old.
In just ~0.5 billion years, the Sun’s growing luminosity will destroy the carbon cycle, and with it all complex life.
In ~1 billion years, it will boil the oceans and sterilize the planet entirely.
Life on Earth is in its final hours, doomed to the hellfire of an expanding Sun. Humanity is the only hope.
We can engineer Earth's climate and extend its lifespan by billions of years.
The Sun's expansion however, is unyielding. Eventually, we must shepherd life beyond the confines of its cradle.
There is no contradiction between the flourishing of humanity and the flourishing of the biosphere.
Our fates are one and the same.