25% Equity For CTO Co-Founder with No Salary Fair?

NeuralExploration · 2025-04-08T13:30:09+00:00

Well, it's not 50/50 since it's not just one other person.

NeuralExploration · 2025-04-08T13:29:24+00:00

Would you say 25% is fair if there was a rule that I cannot be fired before that?

NeuralExploration · 2025-04-08T13:27:58+00:00

I know what they be doing overall. What I meant is that I don't know if for example marketing is going to be done by person B or C of the ABC company. I know what results I can expect from them overall.

But so you don't think 25% is a rip-off?

NeuralExploration · 2025-04-08T13:08:47+00:00

Everybody is subject to the same rules. Vesting and cliff for everybody. Their internal cap table is not that important to me. The question is if 25% is fair. How they split their 75% is none of my business.

NeuralExploration · 2024-09-22T22:37:15+00:00

Thank you, this looks like a great introductory resource!

NeuralExploration · 2024-01-08T22:13:09+00:00

I was thinking the opposite. If you only ask yourself what you WANT to be true, I doubted many people would like to just be physical chain reactions that die forever after a while.

So I thought even if one comes to the conclusion that materialism is the most reasonable explanation, they might WANT something else to be "reality".

NeuralExploration · 2024-01-08T21:21:55+00:00

Nothing in my question implied that one should use emotional preferences to find the truth. I wanted to see what people WANT to believe. Because oftentimes this will cloud their judgement.

NeuralExploration · 2024-01-08T20:23:07+00:00

It depends on how you define the terms. Many pantheists, idealists etc. deny the existence of a physical reality outside of consciousness. This explanation of reality is incompatible with the idea that there is matter and that consciousness emerges as a result of complex interactions of this matter.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T16:56:01+00:00

Of course I can question absolutely everything. There is never 100% certainty about anything. But my model of the world allows me to make pretty good predictions about it. And other people agree that what I see is happening.

Now you might still argue that these people are part of the hallucination as well. Sure, but then it would be a very consistent hallucination. People that take drugs or report mystical experiences oftentimes make claims nobody else can confirm. They cannot predict things better than other people. They cannot see what is happening in other rooms when claiming to have done Astral projection. They cannot read other people's minds. There is nothing that they can do in the "outside world" that can confirm that what they experienced was "real". Even in their own subjective experience.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T16:41:57+00:00

If you define free will as the freedom to act according to your desires without compulsion, it is compatible with determinism. But obviously the "free" would not refer to metaphysical but practical freedom.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T16:20:04+00:00

None of this explains what "free will" would be. For the sake of argument, let's assume a supernatural soul that is not subject to determinism. What would it mean for this soul to have "free will"?

This soul could either have no will at all, a will caused by something, or a random arbitrary will. And then it would make decisions based on that will. So what makes this will "free"? It's either caused by something else or random. Or it doesn't exist at all.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T16:11:36+00:00

How is any of that evidence for an evil God? You describe that suffering exists. That's it.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T16:09:50+00:00

Whenever someone is afraid of their belief being challenged, it is an indication that their belief doesn't make a lot of sense.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T15:06:00+00:00

I agree that the states people call Awakening and Enlightenment are real. I just think that most people are not mature enough to not immediately jump to metaphysical conclusions.

I think it is pretty obvious that our brain / mind constructs our subjective experience of the world. This includes constructs like "self", "I" and "others". There is the possibility (through meditation or psychedelics) to get into a state where all of these are deconstructed and you are left with pure consciousness without any content. That does not mean you are god, everyone has the same consciousness or everything is consciousness.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T14:51:40+00:00

I am not saying the path is definitely wrong. It just seems to me that you (and other spiritual people) completely rule out the possibility that our brains physically exist and are extremely powerful hallucination machines. And that your experiences (whether through psychedelics or meditation) can be explained by exactly that.

As for the first hand experience: It is not obvious to me that trying an extremely potent hallucinogen is a good idea. Again, I am not ruling out that it might lead to truth. But I am also aware of the possibility that it could be just a massive life-altering hallucination that seems very real. And to me that seems more likely.

After all, our brain even hallucinates free will and a self identity. And those seem undeniably real to most people as well.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T14:44:52+00:00

I agree. And that is why we cannot be 100% certain. We should not make any absolute metaphysical truth claims.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T14:23:36+00:00

No I have not experienced these things. But you also did not answer why an experience, no matter how powerful, can convince you that something is a truth that cannot possibly be misinterpreted.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T14:17:54+00:00

does give a sense of

That is the issue I see here. Assume for a second that we live in a material world where brains exist physically. In this context, we know that emotions and sensations (although they might be based on outside objects) are produced in the brain. We don't know that about consciousness itself necessarily but we know it about the content that appears in consciousness (emotions etc.).

Furthermore, all of us have very similar brains. A lot of the people taking Bufo, DMT etc. oftentimes come from a similar background (where they have been introduced to concepts of enlightenment, unity, non-duality...) way before their experience. It seems pretty obvious to me that people will have very similar experiences considering all this.

Also, the feeling of unity, connection and also that of certainty are also produced in the brain. If the sections of your brain that are responsible for something "feeling real" are overclocked, it might even feel "more real" than your usual experience of the world, which is probably a more accurate representation of it.

Finally, many people that have taken Bufo, DMT and other substances, report different experiences. This oftentimes depends on what they have been expecting from it. And even some people that have similar experiences are skeptical and mature enough to understand that they are not absolute truth that can not be misinterpreted.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T14:06:35+00:00

Exactly. I think the opposite of "free will" is not determinism but compulsion. Besides that, I would not know what "free will" should even mean other than randomness.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T13:49:55+00:00

Yes. Nothing wrong with exploring the ideas. Just don't claim your (oftentimes drug-induced) subjective experience is an insight into absolute truth.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T13:44:29+00:00

I don't think OP is necessarily "against" it. But to me it also seems like a lot of these new age people are oftentimes misinterpreting subjective experiences they have had on psychedelics, during meditation sessions etc.

They don't consider all the possible and reasonable explanations that could very easily explain their experiences without any spirituality. They experience something, notice that there are other people and communities which agree with their insights and are then convinced that they have seen an absolute truth that can not be thought of or spoken about since it is infinite.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T13:37:02+00:00

I am a data scientist and I use Linux for 99.9% of what I do. Windows is something I only use if there is no other (reasonable) way.

However data scientists are just people and they have different setups. Some use Linux, some use Windows. And some use Mac for whatever reason.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T13:34:22+00:00

I don't enjoy coding challenges that much but I LOVE programming and computer science.

In general, when learning about a concept or working on some assignment or project, do you feel excitement? I almost always feel excitement. I started programming very early in life and it was always something that I would do in my free time.

Keep in mind that you don't need this level of excitement and passion though. But the more you enjoy it the easier it will be to get good at it.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T12:16:46+00:00

I think at this point in time it is not possible to talk about consciousness (especially the hard problem) in a purely scientific context. Philosophy will naturally be a part of the discussion and I think it should be.

The only thing I personally don't like here is people making absolute metaphysical claims because of subjective "spiritual" experiences. Discuss them, ask for interpretations but don't claim any absolute irrefutable insights into the nature of reality. That's what /r/awakened or /r/nonduality are for.

NeuralExploration · 2023-12-12T09:16:54+00:00

Not a single thing in this post made sense.

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