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I spent a lot of time the last few weeks reading various Janus-inspired simulator theory posts and they have resonated with me. I'd be curious for your opinion on Simulators.
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I'm on an interesting sidequest from the main piece at the moment, because I have no discipline, lol.
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it is optimality just going off and breaking things.
Is discipline all that different from optimality?
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Hah! It is in the way that I don't have it. It would probably be more optimal to first read the entire thing you linked, take notes, read it again, form an opinion about it, then process all the links from the article, take notes on these, read the main article again, and form a "final" opinion.
However, instead I read it but then I click a link in a section I like. "Oooh that's interesting", then I read that - half - and let the mind wander off into all these new impulses and think about the ideas I just had - it's probably some attention deficit thing 1 - and then some time later I pick it up again (when I feel like it.) So yes, that's not really disciplined studying, but it stimulates creativity.
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though I can easily force myself to not do this, at least, when I'm on the job, but I've degen'd into gig work since forever because I appreciate not having a traditional job as I now have ample time to let the mind wander... doing things you love is great. ↩
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ah, I didn't mean to assign reading! It's super long and from 2022, so I thought you might have heard of it. Not necessary to waste time on otherwise.
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