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Tp4 is in a simulation.
« on: Tue, 03 December 2024, 22:41:29 »
Nothing in Tp4's life makes sense.

It's implausible that a person with this many opportunities chooses to deliberately desire and achieve nothing.

He has every possibility to make friends, yet he un-waveringly chooses solitude. But as discussed in the previous sentence, Tp4 has no resolve to "want" anything at all, neither money nor experience. The entirety of Tp4's persona is characterized by an anxious stare into a PC screen, watching the events of the world pass him by. In relative terms, yes Tp4 is aware he's objectively quite "lucky." There are much harsher lives.

At every point Tp4 demands an OUT, ARCH, Escape, there is some new TV show or world catastrophe which arrives just in time to keep Tp4 distracted and lulls Tp4 into an un-resolving, lengthy thought, landing onto yet another repetitive stage of circularity.


If karmic reincarnate systems do exist, Tp4 must've been a terrible criminal of some sort to deserve this systematic blandness. 

Tp4 certainly hopes the universe wants something, because he's completely lost and alone among 8 billion humans/ probable NPCs.


No, Tp4 has not the desire for self-termination, he is intellectually confident such act would not resolve this limbo.


What the heck is Tp4 here to do, he can not save mankind hell bent on destroying itself.




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Re: Tp4 is in a simulation.
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 04 December 2024, 06:33:58 »
Ah, an existential crisis! Never understood why people have those.
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Re: Tp4 is in a simulation.
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 04 December 2024, 08:21:31 »
In my opinion it is important to have interests that are outside of your "basic" functions in order to expand your mind.

People who enjoy their work are generally more content, but that may not be possible for everyone - many jobs just plain suck.

Speaking for myself, I find the "Arts and Sciences" to be endlessly fascinating and listening to complex music and reading serious books are essential daily activities. I also usually watch an hour or 2 of TV, sometimes mindless and sometimes serious. I usually prepare my evening meal and that gives me some minor satisfaction.

Then there are things that occur randomly. Tomorrow I am going on a hike in the woods with a couple of friends. I have 2 beehives that require maintenance but I can go weeks without touching them. I do some occasional amount of woodworking, and some "craft" projects like screen printing. In the warm seasons I keep a moderate garden, and my yard does require some maintenance (ugh).

So this all falls in the "personal fulfillment" category and I am generally a happy and positive person. But, in the grand scheme of things, am I contributing to the advancement of the human race? Probably minimal.
 
Lastly, I derive no pleasure from complaining and accusing, so I avoid them if possible. But as I have watched the world become a more ugly and hateful (and, let's be honest, more stupid) place over the course of my lifetime, it is ever harder to maintain a positive outlook.
Bret Stephens (NYT 2025-03-10) starts with the tariffs, noting that every president since the Great Depression has correctly concluded that the ensuing economic crisis and World War that followed that calamity was attributable in large part to the notorious 1930 Smoot Hawley Tariffs.
That is, until the current occupant of the Oval Office. Until him, no U.S. president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history. Until him, no U.S. president has been so incompetent in putting his own ideas into practice. That’s a conclusion that stock markets seem to have drawn as they plunged following the Trump triple whammy: first, tariff threats against our largest trading partners, spelling much higher costs; second, twice-repeated monthlong reprieves on some of those tariffs, meaning a zero-predictability business environment; finally, his tacit admission, to Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, that the United States could go into recession this year, and that it’s a price he’s willing to pay to do what he calls a “big thing.” In short, a willful, erratic and heedless president is prepared to risk both the U.S. and global economy to make his ideological point. This won’t end well, especially in a no-guardrails administration staffed by a how-high team of enablers and toadies.
But Stephens goes further than simply castigating these pointless and destructive tariffs that Trump has taken such a pathological shine to. He explains how the fancifully created “Department of Governmental Efficiency, (“DOGE”) would be more aptly characterized as an engine of wholesale destruction. Because nothing Musk is doing is about “efficiency.”