I remember having a response to either this article or one of its comments, but then a few hours happened before I was actually able to register (I physically can’t solve capchas and managed to overlook a couple important details in how to use the add-on that I finally decided to install so I could register here. And I ramble without paying enough attention to the readability of my sentences, apparently.)
Anyway, I’ve gotten myself into a mindset in which I can only think of approaches to my current problems that work if something highly improbable were to happen. (This usually involves either a bennevalent genie or a rather specific form of timetravel...). So if I find myself in the 1990s, I’ll have something vaguely resembling a plan, but that doesn’t help me if things continue as they have been.
Seeing as rationality should win, I think it’s pretty safe to say this behavior is irrational.
But I keep wanting to dive into tangents that consist of me whining about my situation as though doing so would somehow absorb everyone else’s problem solving skills for my own benefit, so I’ll stop now and reread more from the sequences.
I remember having a response to either this article or one of its comments, but then a few hours happened before I was actually able to register (I physically can’t solve capchas and managed to overlook a couple important details in how to use the add-on that I finally decided to install so I could register here. And I ramble without paying enough attention to the readability of my sentences, apparently.)
Anyway, I’ve gotten myself into a mindset in which I can only think of approaches to my current problems that work if something highly improbable were to happen. (This usually involves either a bennevalent genie or a rather specific form of timetravel...). So if I find myself in the 1990s, I’ll have something vaguely resembling a plan, but that doesn’t help me if things continue as they have been. Seeing as rationality should win, I think it’s pretty safe to say this behavior is irrational. But I keep wanting to dive into tangents that consist of me whining about my situation as though doing so would somehow absorb everyone else’s problem solving skills for my own benefit, so I’ll stop now and reread more from the sequences.