My personal estimate is that 75% of adults are suffering from some sort of serious mental problem because the human interface to life is broken. In the year 2015, life serves up a level of complexity and unrelenting stimulation that most folks can’t handle it, and I believe it is frying our brains.
I think he is right and that’s an actual insight. The typical mind fallacy would suggest that you wouldn’t notice that if it doesn’t apply to you and esp. on LW I’d guess that most people can deal with a lot of complexity. Can you?
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Total sidenote: Scott Adams Blog has a cute function when copying text: After copying (^C) )a whole paragraph it automatically adds a reference URL to the post in the clipboard. I couldn’t quickly find out how its done but it’s a nice feature to have for a blog.
Total sidenote: Scott Adams Blog has a cute function when copying text: After copying (^C) )a whole paragraph it automatically adds a reference URL to the post in the clipboard. I couldn’t quickly find out how its done but it’s a nice feature to have for a blog.
I think this is becoming more common, the Marginal Revolution blog has been doing this for some time.
Link: Complexity-Induced Mental Illness
I think he is right and that’s an actual insight. The typical mind fallacy would suggest that you wouldn’t notice that if it doesn’t apply to you and esp. on LW I’d guess that most people can deal with a lot of complexity. Can you?
[pollid:1005]
Total sidenote: Scott Adams Blog has a cute function when copying text: After copying (^C) )a whole paragraph it automatically adds a reference URL to the post in the clipboard. I couldn’t quickly find out how its done but it’s a nice feature to have for a blog.
I think this is becoming more common, the Marginal Revolution blog has been doing this for some time.