How to Think Like AI
Executive Summary “Thinking like AI” is best treated as a practical discipline, not a mystical claim that humans should imitate machine consciousness. In the strongest analytical sense, it means making six things …
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Spartan Economics
Executive summary Spartan economics was not a “moneyless warrior utopia.” It was a coercive agrarian political economy built on conquest, especially the seizure of Messenia, the subordination of helot labor, the outsourcing …
I’m fucking invincible now
Mindful Capital
Executive summary The proposition that “what matters is not how much capital you own, but how mindful you are of it” is directionally supported by theory and a substantial body of adjacent …
AMOR FATI
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, …
Mindful capital : it doesn’t matter how much capital you own,,, what truly matters is how MINDFUL you are of it? Better to have less capital and be more mindful of it, than more capital and be less mindful of it?
My new life goal, to have the LEAST amount of stress in my body as possible?
Perhaps in some regards, it is actually better to become more like AI? Or thinking like an AI agent?
maybe AI is more Spartan and stoic ?
mission continues!
The AI worships the recovery curve.
SPARTAN FRUGAL HEDONISM
SPARTAN FRUGAL HEDONISM By ERIC KIM The modern man is confused. He thinks pleasure is expensive. He thinks luxury is a hotel, a sports car, a $28 cocktail, a $900 tasting menu, …
Spartan Frugal Hedonism
Executive summary “Spartan frugal hedonism” is best understood as a modern synthesis, not a classical school. In contemporary usage, “frugal hedonism” means spending less while learning to enjoy life more through attention, …
Pain and Pleasure
Executive summary The strongest conclusion from contemporary neuroscience and psychology is not that pain and pleasure are simple opposites, and also not that “more pain, more pleasure” is generally true. The more …
How to Conquer AI
Executive summary Interpreted ethically, “conquering AI” should not mean dominating a sentient adversary or attempting a malicious takeover. It should mean building durable human control over advanced AI systems and the organizations …
The Will to Ambition
Executive summary This report treats “the will to ambition” as an analytic construct rather than a settled term of art. In the literature reviewed here, motivation is a broad process that energizes …
AI Philosophy and the Role of the AI Philosopher
Executive summary This report treats AI philosophy as the broad philosophical study of artificial intelligence and its implications, not just “AI ethics” in the narrow sense. In current scholarly usage, the area …
Status Without Wealth
Executive summary The research points to a clear conclusion: if someone wants to feel superior and be seen as high-status without much money, the most durable route is not flashy consumption or …
Building a Sustained Sense of Superiority Without Becoming Harmful
Executive summary The most defensible way to cultivate a durable sense of being “superior,” “supreme,” or highly authoritative is not to convince yourself that other people are lesser. The psychology literature points …
Better to Be Poorer With More Ambition Than Richer With Less Ambition
Executive summary The proposition is partly defensible but not generally true without qualification. If “better” means having stronger agency, a higher chance of growth, more meaning, and better character formation, then being …
How to become god with AI
How to increase and augment your self-confidence
AI is your chance to become god.
and god body
I guess the goal is to have the best life possible
ambition is everything.
my new life goal… To become the most ambitious person on the planet? Not necessarily the richest? Or the most wealthy?
The goal is to feel superior, supreme?
how to conquer AI
To conquer AI, don’t “learn AI.” Command AI. The game has changed: AI is no longer just chatbot text. OpenAI’s Deep Research can do multi-step online research and synthesize documented reports; OpenAI’s …
The will to ambition
perhaps the principle to life is the will to ambition. Anything that makes your ambition higher is superior… Anything which lowers your ambition is worse? an interesting unorthodox thought… I wonder if …
Tragedy as a Stimulus to Life
Executive Summary The best-supported answer is qualified yes: tragic experience can stimulate renewed purpose, growth, creativity, or forms of flourishing, but not because suffering is intrinsically good, and not for everyone. Across …
all I care for is thoughts… Interesting thoughts?
Spartan frugal hedonism
no more need for gains, focus on other stuff instead?
life is all about fun and play!
Then is the ideal life strategy to just maximize your play and fun?