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Productivity and Burnout · 8:14pm Jun 13th, 2021
I made a thing I hope you enjoy the thing:
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21 weeksTradition10 comments · 563 views
This one's particular poignant. Singing this on January 1 is a twelve year tradition at this point.
So fun facts
1) Did you know you don't have to be epileptic to have seizures?
2) and if you have a seizure lasting longer than five minutes you just straight out have a 20% chance of dying in the next thirty days, apparently -
27 weeksTwo Martyrs Fall for Each Other2 comments · 645 views
Here’s where I talk about this new story, 40,000 words long and written in just over a week. This is in no way to say it’s rushed, quite the opposite; It wouldn’t have been possible if I wasn’t so excited to put it out. I would consider A Complete Lack of Jealousy from All Involved a prologue more than a prequel, and suggested but not necessary reading.
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30 weeksCommissions Open: An Autobiography5 comments · 628 views
Commission rates $20USD per 1,000 words. Story ideas expected between 4K-20K preferable. Just as a heads up, I’m trying to put as much of my focus as I can into original work for publication, so I might close slots quickly or be selective with the ideas I take. Does not have to be pony, but obviously I’m going to be better or more interested in either original fiction or franchises I’m familiar
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32 weeksBlinded by Delight19 comments · 812 views
My brain diagnosis ended up way funnier than "We'll name it after you". It turned out to be "We know this is theoretically possible because there was a recorded case of it happening once in 2003". It turns out that if you have bipolar disorder and ADHD and PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, you get sick in a way that should only be possible for people who have no
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42 weeksEFNW6 comments · 815 views
I planned on making it this year but then ran into an unfortunate case of the kill-me-deads. In the moment I needed to make a call whether to cancel or not, and I knew I was dying from something but didn't know if it was going to be an easy treatment or not.
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Well said.
Great work!
Thing is enjoyed
Very nicely articulated and presented.
What struck me as I thought about this is that there is nothing about this reaction that is in any way abnormal or unreasonable. The more awful realization I had is that there is nothing abnormal about the conditions that lead to this sort of reaction. The workaholic mindset is almost guaranteed by the conditions inherent in the way our modern civilization is constructed. Which means that this is a feature, not a bug.
Is it horrible for the vast majority of people? Undeniably, yes. How about the small minority of people who benefit from wide-spread workaholism? They certainly benefit monetarily, but generally? I don't think so. The desire for constantly increasing their wealth as much as possible seems pathological to me, and not a sign of a healthy and happy mind.
I am becoming more and more certain that our modern way of thinking, our basic assumptions about how society and civilization should operate, are not only fundamentally wrong, but also horribly damaging to everyone.
Good video
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Another thing that seeks to expand and increase without limit or long-term plans beyond making those numbers even bigger: cancer. If all one cares about is having as many cells as possible, cancer is great! Right up until it kills the host and, as a result, itself. And in the meantime, those cells and the ones around them probably aren't going to be having the best time by many standards other than the raw numbers.
And aye, I think the video was good, though I'm not thinking of much more to say about it. Good luck with your ongoing difficulties, MrNumbers.
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Didn't the villain of The Matrix make almost exactly this comparison? He then proceeded to out himself as a hypocrite with that one scene where there was like a hundred of him, but still.
Best summary I've seen of what it feels like to be a Millennial.
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Hm. I think I vaguely recall something like that? Though from that memory, he was talking about humanity, in general, whereas I was talking about our particular present civilization and its obsession with increase (population goes up, economies grow, technology gets more complex, transportation gets faster, etc.).
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The bad part about the cancerous philosophy of unrestrained, limitless growth is the unspoken part of that equation: Unrestrained and limitless waste. Physical waste is the least of it, though the most visible. Chemical, radiological, biological, heat... our waste is more of an existential threat than lack of any resources.
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That was the "almost", that he was generalizing it even further because AI.
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My own understanding of our current predicament is that the lack of resources is going to stop us first and harder (though certainly not without major aid from the waste), but otherwise, aye. If tomorrow we discovered very cheap proton-proton that could turn basically anything lighter than iron into iron and energy, or synthesize any element from feedstock of any lighter element and possibly also release energy, we'd have gotten past more or less all of our energy and raw material limits, and garbage, toxic waste, and even collected waste gases could be fed in and rendered harmless.
And if we made no change to our culture, Jevon's Paradox would kick in like it was strapped to a fusion-torchship rocket sled and the global warming from our waste heat would make that from greenhouse-gas-trapped insolation look like a pleasantly warm Spring day. And if enough humans got off-planet before Earth became an even closer sibling of Venus? Well, hey, no need to change now, obviously this approach to the universe works just fine so long as you get off the surface before it starts raining molten lead!
So, yeah.
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Ah, thanks. Though I'm afraid I'm not sure why them being an AI would make them generalizing it further.
Finally able to watch this. You said what I feel every day better than I could. Every day I have to get up and go to work is a struggle to find a reason not to just give up on life. Every day I don't have to go to work is screaming anxiety because I'm not at work or looking for better paying work.
I honestly don't know what the hell to do about any of it. I have no answers, I'm just too tired to think.
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I'm no longer totally sure myself, but I think that I meant he could do stuff like that without it necessarily applying to him. Then the hypocrisy happens.
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...Yeeeah, I think I've lost the thread of this conversation too; sorry. Do you think we should try to pick it back up, or would it be better to move on? I don't think this is a significant issue that needs to be chased down, but I don't know if you have a different view.