It seems to me like your trying to enforce your values on others. You might think your just trying to help, or do something good. I’m just a bit skeptical of anyone trying to enforce values rather than inspire or suggest.
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We sound alike. I’m curious where are you from?
“On the other hand, I would have to take care of myself which would take a lot of time.” Borrow 4 Hour Work-Week (by Timmothy Ferris) at your local libary, then that shouldn’t be a problem if your just closely as smart as you seem. Yes, the title sounds like a get-rich-quick scheme (he has even made fun of it later himself.). But he’s actually very sensible and practical minded, not very brilliant philosophically though.
Thanks! Bayes theorem seems very useful, though I haven’t gotten through it all yet. I’m not a good reader yet.
Have you got any idea how far is my goal from everybody elses in here?
Greetings fellow user & producer of thoughts!
My parents named me Jonathan, I’m 20 and born in Copenhagen. I’m honored to find such a high quantity, high concentration of high quality minds. My dad (not very generous with compliments) told me recently that I’ve always been wierd, much more conscious about everything since very young. I’m also about the fastest learner I know of. Two major weaknesses would be that I’m mortal and my English is very unpracticed in terms of output. I value: Consciousness, Intelligence, Practicality, Good decision making, Well thought out ideals and sticking to them, Self-control—including the ability to control what I value, what feelings I have linked to which ideas, control of my mindsets and the ability to switch freely between them.
I woke up this morning after 3 hours of sleep (and no, aside from power naps I don’t practice polyphasic sleep, yet.), I didn’t feel the slightest bit nervous about going to the math exam, that I had only 2 days earlier, by chance, when tidying up my inbox realized I was registered on. The fact that I still hadn’t read half of the math book for the semester which just inferred I would have to learn while being examined made me focused, not nervous.
But I’m so super extremely fantastically pleased to learn of the existence of lesswrong.com, that just minutes ago I was nervous about writing this.
After my exam I had a talk with my friend about my recent progress and obstacles in context of my life purpose, which would be fitting to present now I reckon.
Three ways of of naming it would be: The way to Universal Genius/The journey to becoming a 3rd millennium polymath/Self-development with no reason or intentions of limits on proportions.
It’s my first candidate to something I find fully valid as a meaningful purpose of my life. It both feels more right and enjoyable than anything, but I think that is because it is backed by my reasoning (or rational thought). I won’t go in depth with that unless there is interest (also since I’m assuming LW actually might be a place where others could’ve come to the same conclusion as me), but I’ll touch my reasoning shortly.
All of which I do, I want to do optimally, my brain is my tool for doing so. I do not know the limits of either mine nor the brain in general, and therefore see only disadvantages in setting them for myself. If (insert whatever), I’ll do that better with a better brain, so I better train that brain.
So to not make this a book length comment; I told my friend that epistemology was my current main objective to worry about. That led to him to suggest me to learn about Bayes statistics and referred me to LW to start learning about it.
Let the learning commence!
I realize this post is quite old, but there’s clearly a norm of conversation I’m not understanding. I don’t want to cross peoples boundaries, but I have a hard time understanding them.
Could you be so kind to explain to me why one would be offended by that?