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by 7Wannabe5
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:45 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Replies: 603
Views: 167996

Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta

Survival is a multi-goal optimization problem, but the assumed outcome variable of evolution is usually taken to be univariate and binary. Did we survive, pass on our genes, and raise our children so they may pass on their genes (and ensure that they raise their children so they can pass on their d...
by 7Wannabe5
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:53 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: A chat with Claude
Replies: 1
Views: 94

Re: A chat with Claude

I have always sensed a kinship with the bonobos.
by 7Wannabe5
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

Maybe it already has been? Interesting. Maybe I will try out "Doomsday Paradise" or "Monster Prom." My dollhouse was one of my favorite toys as a child, so sims are somewhat appealing, although actually crafting miniatures would be even more appealing to me, but I rarely give my...
by 7Wannabe5
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:30 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Replies: 603
Views: 167996

Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta

I vote for innately heterotelic goals, because one of the first (and still quite significant) splits which was Survive/Reproduce first appeared around 2 billion years ago in our evolutionary heritage. If we were still asexually reproducing, eating all the Cheetos you like while you hide out in a dan...
by 7Wannabe5
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

@daylen: Interesting that Aella also straightforwardly recommended that men who want to do market research towards dating should read romance novels. I searched and discovered that there are a few fairly well-reviewed video games based on Regency Romance. Bridgerton was obviously hugely popular and ...
by 7Wannabe5
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

In other words, give the wannabe conquerors some sex robots and virtual worlds to conquer and maybe they will select themselves out of the picture. :lol: For better or worse, I think this is unlikely, due in part to the fact that when women solo/independently select porn, #1 selection is Lesbian-or...
by 7Wannabe5
Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:13 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

@jacob: Interesting. Compared to men, female MMORPG players tend to place more emphasis on socialization relative to achievement-oriented play. This emphasis on socialization extends beyond just the game itself: In a study published in the Journal of Communication in 2009, researchers found that 61%...
by 7Wannabe5
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

@daylen: I'm sure the internet is correct. I have a bad habit of characterizing/dismissing activities I don't particularly enjoy, such as "video games", "Star Wars". "burpees", "porn", and "earning money in corporate setting" as boy-things. OTOH, I a...
by 7Wannabe5
Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
Topic: "How to Drop Out"
Replies: 125
Views: 12635

Re: "How to Drop Out"

@daylen: :lol: I'm entirely willing to be made to believe that the old-old guys are also wrong, in whole or part, even/especially given my take on the nouveau-old guys. Before civilization became universal, the consequences of decline and fall may have been catastrophic for a particular society and ...
by 7Wannabe5
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:33 pm
Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
Topic: "How to Drop Out"
Replies: 125
Views: 12635

Re: "How to Drop Out"

There's also the concept of "old money absent money" which runs somewhat in alignment with Jacob's take on being a "poor aristocrat." I've been reading Barbara Tuchman's "The Proud Tower" in which she describes society just prior to WW1. The first chapter is "The P...
by 7Wannabe5
Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

I wish there were more ecologically oriented sims that didn't empathize a particular set of objectives or goals but instead doubled down on a semi-organized, regenerative world that is predictably unpredictable. Economies are pervasive in gaming, but the combination of ecologies and economies could...
by 7Wannabe5
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

And in the few cases where it's not, an ecological education is downright depressing. I think maybe an ecological education is somewhat less depressing if your path to that education was through gardening. If you start out as a Naturalist, or just somebody who enjoys being in untouched nature, as L...
by 7Wannabe5
Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: guitar player's journal
Replies: 466
Views: 121741

Re: guitar player's journal

...and who knows WTF I'm doing.
by 7Wannabe5
Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:40 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Replies: 603
Views: 167996

Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta

Great post! Ken Wilber writes a bit about how transcendence can take on "depth" as well and/or "height." Transcendent "height" is akin to going up and beyond your own ego-state, and "depth" is more akin to opening in compassion to the universe. Sometimes we en...
by 7Wannabe5
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:21 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

You don't have to be a backpacker/outdoorsperson to grok ecology, even though those often go together. Yup, you also don't have to like sex much to grok how/why to use a condom. I think maybe there is just something in the eNTP nature that when warned of scarcities, tends towards becoming even more...
by 7Wannabe5
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

@jacob: Yes, but global population is now expected to peak at around 9.6 billion around 2064, so the question is whether the crappier, colder areas of "nature" will be gentry-class-touristed out prior to the global population receding. The "ERE" city survey tending strongly towar...
by 7Wannabe5
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:51 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

@zbigi: Yup. My neck of the woods was completely logged, hunted, farmed out by 1900, although it was still almost complete wilderness in 1830. It just took 70 years, utilizing 19th century technology to wipe out "nature." Urbanization and globalization did away with vast majority of hunter...
by 7Wannabe5
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:31 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

As such if you, like many humans, go into "nature" to experience peace and quiet or whatever it is you enjoy by being surrounded by greenery and insects, he suggests coming up with a plan B. I think most of the humans currently grieving the loss of nature in their locale, probably live in...
by 7Wannabe5
Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

Yes, and? I hypothesize that a lack of exposure to "city" may inhibit or alter human mental development, because "nature" does not provide enough positive feedback to the sort of abstractions the human brain is likely to form, such as "rectangles" or "good/evil&qu...
by 7Wannabe5
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:57 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8281

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

You could enjoy the data science then! Yup, data science isn't a terrible match for one of the quadrants of my personality. Just too dry and cold to spend 40 hrs/wk on. I remembered that my kids used to tease me about a "video game" that I did like. I designed a few gardens using a 3-D ga...