Thoughts of a TechnoWizard

Don't listen to this if you are prone to existential dread. I had this idea for potentially creating a more realistic and dynamic virtual world, but then I realized that it would probably not work, but that lead me to understand why people would want to create simulated world like ours .. which lead me to truly feeling some existential dread more viscerally than I usually ever feel. I am not sure if this episode makes a lick of sense, but I do think it is important to share, so ..... Here you go. Listen at your own peril.

Continuing from yesterday's episode, I share more ideas that I've learned from Lex Fridman's interview with Daniel Smachtenberger. In this entry, I go into the concept of Ritualized Discomfort and talk about why optimizing for comfort is dangerous and why individualized, zero-sum success is also dangerous. We need voluntary, communal struggle. I also talk about language.

I talk a bit about the benefits of qualitative research, my plans to be more consistent on YouTube, and what I learned from watching Lex Fridman's interview with Daniel Smachtenberger on Steering Humanity away from Self Destruction. Such a great episode!! Really loved the idea of Compersion and will also search more up on Consilience.

I am all over the place in this episode! Sharing my thoughts on some stuff I watched on Netflix, on copyright and intellectual property, on metacognition and more. Sorry for the awkwardness 😅

Today I talk about spending time with my SO. We cooked together, watched some shows, and it was quite fun! I also get into some music I've listened to recently and the importance of album sequencing. (Check out Nathan Zeds video on that!) I also talk about TikTok and Jason Calacanis being to investing in a black-led team building their own Social Media platform.

Today, I share my first forray into Post-Modernism and how it may or may not relate to Wokeism. I share my thoughts on how I think the skeptic approach to objective reality is a great opportunity for curiosity and humility.

What is anarchy? In this entry, I share what I have learned from reading the anarchy.works primer. I talk about how anarchy is NOT the purge, and how our society can actually be much better if it was a bunch of anarchist communities rather than authoritarian regimes and capitalist imperialists. Yes, that's basically blasphemy to say, but check it out for yourself if you think I'm a loon!

After sharing updates on my day, I delve into the problems of Wokeism and cancel culture. I share my thoughts on why I think a focus on race (ie white privilege, white fragility, etc) actually creates more racism. I also speak on conservatism a bit and begin to share my lifelong interest in anarchy.

I've been feeling fairly unmotivated over the last few days,... But I've also been nerding out about consciousness and free will. In this audiojournal, I ramble about my ideas in this topic and how we can better individuals and build a better society by seriously questioning the idea of free will.

What if some UFOs are of non-human terran origin?? In this episode, I play around with the idea that UFOs might be old hominid species... 🤔 I also talk about how important it is for scientists to entertain these ideas. And I may have another podcast coming out today going over my new habits and goals!