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I am not going to try to change your outlook to be more positive, but you have to admit that it’s somewhat (tragically) amusing that we can find ourselves on a website full of people who are extremely technically capable (and highly intelligent), have access to devices that can connect to billions of others devices instantly, and can profit from said system allowing them to better their lives, yet this same community can only dwell on the negative of their situation instead of the positive.

I think, when you’re very smart, you are just many steps ahead of the average person in pattern recognition. You can literally store more information and pattern match against it, so you’re going to pattern match up the power hierarchy and think about things that have a negative impact on you that you can never directly affect without traversing up the hierarchy. If most people here (not saying you specifically) would instead just focus on “what is the biggest problem in my life that I have complete control over?”, I think they’d find that focusing on the greater powers that be has little practical consequence since they’re just not at the level where they can exert influence over those powers. There is almost certainly a path to local maxima, and from there, a greater and greater maxima.

parent vhiremath4 2 years ago

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