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I feel like the whiplash combined with the sleaziness of it kills the mood. Like your some kind of servant. What a story.

No fun allowed under religion and feminism.

Calling these things AI has to be one of the biggest marketing ploys of all time. It draws on decades of imagination and wonder and incurs a seemingly endless amount of speculation and hype. Very convenient for driving investments. Just calling it AI has to have made this companies billions. Calling it LLM instead of AI would remove it from the endless speculation and preconcieved notions of what it might do. It would be way more sober and make it more apparent that there are limitations.

Self-help is more about expanding your mind and ability to act on your passions, so a lot of self-help is worth reading, but not necesarilly worth studying. I can only think that a handful of books are really worth studying as they essentially cover the breadth of the topic.

Studying is often necessary to develop valuable skills and insight. Studying isn't always worth it though depending on the material.

Russia doesn't want peace and isn't interested in diplomacy unless it is sufficiently destructive for Ukraine's governability. This is why Trump's negotiations fail. He thinks Putin will be happy with a "good deal" of material substance, but Putin doesn't want peace. Russia can only be prevented from further escalation by being stonewalled military. Ukranians themselves are going to rely less on western countries when there's a lack of support. It doesn't help that Trump is ideologically allies with Putin. It's an unfortunate development if Ukraine goes nuclear.

That Mexican alien was pretty small.

Proves that nobody questions you if you just walk around in reflective vest.

Genuinely. The most painful period of my life was objectively not that bad. It was 95% just how I interpreted my situation and chose to react. I was driving myself to feeling suicidal over how I focused my mind. You don't really need to transcend it. You just need better mental hygiene. Awakening the Giant Within is full of strategies for making your mind more constructive and solution oriented. Jordan Shanks on Youtube also shares a bunch of strategies for being more constructively oriented.

How do you know that?

Thanks for the input. I'll check out the book. It's a difficult question for sure. I hope going more in depth with the LP course will help clarify things.

It's hard to get into books in general. A lot of people aren't reading despite wishing to. I myself don't really read for fun for the most part. I get myself to read because I want to learn. That I mildly enjoy it just makes it easier.

It's worthless to negotiate any kind of peace without security guarantees. Russia can easily just breach those guarantees at a later date. This has been argued for extensively already. Certain Europeans are going to be biased towards sacrificing Ukraine to Russia to get it over with because they can't effectively mobilize against Russia due to political incapability. But Russia is at war with Europe as well through hybrid warfare, trying to undermine democracy, so it is in the interest of Europeans to fight back as well. This is why I think Ukraine might go nuclear in the near future.

What worked for me to build a reading habit is reading 5 minutes every day, then adding 5 minutes every week. I'm now at 50 minutes of reading every day. It lets you build positive associations and get used to reading as you gradually increase your intensity. You will forget most of what you read, I believe, but the overall idea will stick to you in my experience. A handful of concepts will stick in your mind, usually the most important ones. But when you re-read, the information tends to stick much better and more clearly also. If you want to maintain information like a fine comb catching lice then you need to study the book which I consider to be different from just reading. In my opinion, just reading is sufficient in most cases unless you think the book is particularly important. You reading/comprehension skills will improve as you read more books. Non-fiction books that are just information are harder to comprehend than stories though. I think humans are naturally geared toward story telling, so that makes sense. Good writers weave storytelling into their writing to better carry the meaning of their ideas. Audio books tend to have less emotional impact for me. It is much more of a passive experience compared to when you read and are focused on the book's content. There's also just that nice feeling when you are well into a book and reading happens effortlessly. Usually when you past the half-way point.

Humans have been reading and writing for thousands of years. It's just a form of communication. Your doing it right now. Communication and language is as human as it gets. I think a major reason why reading is so hard for many is because it is a focused activity and slow, unlike TikTok. You solve the bias problem by just reading lots of different books and perspective. Social media in comparison curates content into a personalized echochamber if you are not careful.