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- Wed May 01, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
To reiterate, apart from spreading the word, I think there's still theoretical work to be done. I really think we need someone credible (a credentialled economist) to tell politicians that mass FIRE will not be the end of the world. Keynes with his offhand musing on 15 hour work week was a good sta...
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2056
- Views: 353388
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
@J+G - Thank you. I didn't disagree with a single sentence there. Well put too. If I may put it in math terms. The human population exists on Bell curves (many variables, mostly all Gaussian). Within that population, samples exist on other Bell Curves (different averages and standard deviations). (F...
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
More broadly, I don't think it's possible to implement huge social change in purely bottom-up manner. What usually happens is that thinkers/activists/early adopters eventually get enough people behind an idea so that it becomes adopted by a major political player, and then implemented at country's ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:04 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
Here's the full letter (7 pages): http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
I don't follow. How did start from Keynes' letter and arrive at masses of people involved in active investing? Step 1. Collect underpants. Step 2. ???? Step 3. Profit! Seriously though. I think the internet has been and continue to be a significant force multiplier in spreading the ideas. While few...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: How awesome is slow cooking?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1488
Re: How awesome is slow cooking?
When did it become the norm in the developed world to cook in such energy intensive ways? I mean, there's nothing wrong with an occasional stir fry, sauté or baked meal for a treat. But every day seems excessive. Maybe the corporate wage-slave "pressure cooker" lifestyle encourages people...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: A chat with gpt2-chatbot
- Replies: 14
- Views: 565
Re: A chat with gpt2-chatbot
FWIW, I'm already nuking posts that are "100% AI generated" (mostly spam accounts) as well as "hey take a look at this one hour youtube video"-driveby commentary. It's not a huge problem although it could become one. I think it's in the general interest of the forum to preserve a...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
Anyways, this is what I think Jacob means in the book when he writes about preserving the efficiencies of the market/Capitalist mass production. It entails pruning the branch at the juncture where Keynes predicted that the efficiencies obtained through mass production would eventualy allow for 15 h...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
I did not present any vision of a ‘utopia’ nor do I think my questions reflect “dreamy” thinking– why are you addressing it that way? I’m providing specific examples that do not seem to be beyond the capability of “what you can actually do.” And I would argue, have argued , these relatively easy to...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: I Was Once Found But Now I Am Lost
- Replies: 120
- Views: 31307
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
...until welfare issues are integrated into systems design at Level Yellow/Turquoise. Which is exactly where/why WL8+ is going, no? ERE is Yellow level systems design. So the few WL9-10 individuals getting blamed for the fall of capitalism or the welfare state are indeed contributing to the general...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2056
- Views: 353388
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
IOW, it seems to me that you are profoundly confounding E/I with N/S and T/F in your post above. I am, for the sake of the argument, trying to keep it simple without losing generality here. Adding more neurotransmitters (GABA, serotonin,... complete list ) or exceptions to the argument would only s...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
Some of the anti-capitalism sentiment reminds me of this: https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=12146 It's funny/interesting, because the counter-arguments I encounter in [fairly SD:Green] Denmark (my other "general interface with the public") is rarely ever about the &q...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2056
- Views: 353388
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
Height is immutable. The cognitive functions we are speaking about (MBTI) are not. My degree of introversion is not fixed for life. If I am placed in an environment that requires me to be more outgoing - using the term du jour - I can mask it until my brain rewires and my baseline extroversion rise...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
@bsog - I think it all comes back to "render unto Caesar's". ERE is first and foremost a pragmatic strategy for individuals to deal with the system AS IT IS while bringing about the [next] system as it could be. ERE1(individual)->ERE2(city)->ERE3(inter-nation)->.... EREn If we could trade/...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2056
- Views: 353388
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
+1 on the pre/trans issue. At Kegan5 people start accepting and incorporating all 8 cognitive functions into their being. However, Kegan5 only comprises 1% of humans which leaves the other 99% floundering in the "cultural or societal water they swim in". So to answer @Ego's question, diagn...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Traditional wealth advice is outdated
- Replies: 2
- Views: 249
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2056
- Views: 353388
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
Simplistic calculation of how many X's are out there. Assuming that 68% fall within one standard deviation and calling that X. (This holds for all dimensions except N/S which is 30/70 rather than 50/50 like the other three.) 4X: C(4,4)*0.68^4*0.32^0 = 1*0.21*1 = 21% (non-typed, average human, everyb...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 523
- Views: 147335
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
Unless it has changed, I'm seeing ( ERE Wheaton table v2, 2021 ed. ) that Level 10 is described as "embodying philosophy, leading by example, virtuous fulfillment", "infinite games". That's still the most recent version. The stages are described a bit in more detail here: https:...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2056
- Views: 353388
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
@AH - I really like the title of that post. I presume it's well-known, at least on the forum, that I'm not a fan of current trend towards pathologizing anyone who falls outside an increasingly narrow normative mainstream range, where the choice seems to be between average/norm or somehow sick. I'm a...