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Interesting. What did the term mean in the context of game theory? Just maximising the likelihood of positive outcomes?

Hahaha guess you're not a degen gamer miguel I just use min-maxing in the sense of maximising your win percentage in things. For example, through levelling up your skills.

I definitely get where you're coming from with the shallowness stuff, and the grossness of it. Apps have helped me get a significant amount more dating experience though. And that I have found really valuable.

I've seen that isn't true. If you follow advice from people who have performed de facto scientific studies on what works on the apps, i.e. best openers, you can get significantly improved results. I tried one new opener recently, and started getting significantly more matches. That alone disproves your claim. But people do seem to say I am a little bit above average lookswise. Emphasis on the little bit. So I understand it may be different for less physically attractive. But seems irrational to me to think that min-maxxing how you approach the apps even as less attractive wouldn't make a difference.

W high-consciousness dad

Yep, I'd definitely agree. One aspect of that is that a significant amount of gatekeeping of high-level opportunities has been taken away. If you wanted to publish a book you used to have persuade a publisher (just look at JK Rowling, and how many times she got turned down by publishers). If you wanted to be big in entertainment you had to persuade someone to give you a shot. Now you can self-publish a book, and/or start a twitch channel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260309-ai-is-finding-treatments-for-incurable-diseases

Just don't abuse her, or lie to her, aside from white lies.

Maybe motivated by fear, but source of motivation doesn't matter in this context. What matters is having better education. If that better education is motivated by fear, then so be it. I'd say its not a binary thing of avoiding every trap or not. Its just about maximising the traps you avoid, and especially about making sure you maximise avoiding the important ones.

I can definitely see some benefits to that. But in any skill development there are various traps that people tend to fall into. One of the roles of foundational learning is to make people not fall into those traps. Relying on curiosity alone to ensure you cover material sufficient to not fall into those traps is a difficult one I'd say.

Not sure relapsed is the right word to use in the case of abusing someone.

Get away from your sister. Move out. You can't control yourself to not abuse her, and there is no excuse for it. There is a way forward. But you need to stay away from her. Go to anger management classes, or do therapy.

@YIDIRYIDIR I disagree. You need the foundation of a lot of books, then you can become a maverick. Otherwise most of one's creativity is gonna be spent re-inventing the wheel, and falling into all sorts of traps. Imagine trying to make a historical theory without reading all sorts of books on what happened in the past. The theory will likely be delusional

In some ways I agree. In some ways I disagree. For example, this young generation is much worse of in terms of ability to get a house, and they have to deal with trying to make it in a world full of addictive tech.

@Oppositionless I get you. Thank you for your response.