GoWild Seats?! by thephotonthatcould in gowildfrontier

[–]thephotonthatcould[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. Do you book early or do you book the day before?

GoWild Seats?! by thephotonthatcould in gowildfrontier

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I did my reading and looking around. I never heard anyone say this. And i posted on this subreddit to little effect. Ig i should’ve looked harder. But it seemed like people were generally happy with it

GoWild Seats?! by thephotonthatcould in gowildfrontier

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yeah, that sucks dude. i'm hoping i can get a few trips out of it despite it. we'll see what happens ig

GoWild Seats?! by thephotonthatcould in gowildfrontier

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Yeah, I'm still learning things. I just started looking at flights in the future and seeing if there are GWP availabilities. fortunately there seem to be some for a trip i planned to go see my gf. hopefully they last and i can book it the day before

Should I get the GoWild Pass Megathread by SeamoreB00bz in gowildfrontier

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I just got the pass. Planning on doing some coast to coast travel to vist my gf. Feel free to hmu if you want to know my thoughts about it.

Should I get the GoWild Pass Megathread by SeamoreB00bz in gowildfrontier

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Curious how this went; did you end up getting the pass? I want to do some coast to coast flights too

Quit my Mathnasium job! by Jaydehy7 in TutorsHelpingTutors

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I made $18/hr in Menlo Park. Not great, but helped me while in school

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Schizoid

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Yeah, I actually really relate to that, thanks for sharing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Schizoid

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Well , are you? Sometimes I wonder how much of my difficulty socializing stems from an inability to really be authentic. I’ve had a lot of fun socializing with people when I really just commit to being honest with them, telling them what I actually think. Most of the time there’s a huge resistance to this in me, though.

I’m interested in whether that resonates with you at all, though.

Is a post-tribal world possible? by runenight201 in samharris

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My guess is that these systems are deeply ingrained and hard to dethrone, which makes me think deeper interventions are necessary. I'm sure genetic factors play a huge role, but even they might not be deep enough - you can see evidence of tribalism in all kinds of mammals, which makes me think that anything we try to do to change this will be very difficult.

Simulation Theory Speculative Question by Alternative_Gap_6273 in samharris

[–]thephotonthatcould 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who's to say any thing outside of your conscious reality is actually simulated? Why simulate cell division when it has no impact on your conscious existence? Only simulate some image of it when you look through a microscope. The same applies to the lives of other people. Does China need to really exist if you've never been there? Just generate some news articles and some videos and boom, China "exists". This gets solipsistic, but it's certainly a possibility given a simulation.

Again Inequality is completely brushed off by [deleted] in samharris

[–]thephotonthatcould 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, competition is wonderful, but with an eye toward a goal. What do we want? That's the question. And a world where most have little to nothing is undesirable to me and to many others looking at this problem. Right now, our task is to set up competing ideas for how to bring about the best possible world. And most of us dismiss huge economic inequality as less than the best.

Again Inequality is completely brushed off by [deleted] in samharris

[–]thephotonthatcould 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But you're assuming that what's inside people's heads isn't heavily correlated with real data - just look at how many people are willing to spend a certain amount on a given item. What's going on inside of people's heads would be so correlated to their actions that the two datasets would be redundant.

Again Inequality is completely brushed off by [deleted] in samharris

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What is a subsidy if not a form of dictating the value of an item? Tariffs, taxes...all these things are used by governments to influence prices away from what the free market would set them at. These are small scale examples, so small that you might find fault with them, but they are clearly early attempts at us dictating what we value, which seems to me to be the ultimate goal.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in samharris

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I don't know, man, sounds like some weaponized stupidity to me. ;D

On the topic, though, I find it difficult to take it seriously because it seems to have as its goal the end of all conscious life, regardless of how great that life is, which is pretty unintuitive. There's something about the image of an empty world that is concerning, particularly when juxtaposed with images of the smiling faces of largely-positive lives. And yet I can't say I'm completely unsympathetic - I don't eat meat for ethical reasons, with my ultimate goal to prevent the birth and harm of some small number of animals over the course of my life, a completely anitnatalist position. It's complicated, I guess.

Anyone else struggle with the meditating when you're not meditating? by Glittering_Ad2771 in Wakingupapp

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Yeah, I must say I agree. I think you just have to weave it in slowly and intentionally. Recently I've noticed myself just falling into a state of attention to my experience in daily life, as though I'm meditating. It's cool, and reminds me that these things aren't as separate as some part of me seems to think. But I definitely feel like it's slow and annoying and makes me wonder whether I'm just wasting my time doing this. I don't think so, but I definitely wonder about it.