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Yeah, I'm not really considering the totality of these wants and the cost of ownership. I guess your question makes me wonder: with everything I own, should I try to have every part of it, even something that at first glance looks like bothersome work, really be aligned with my values? Is it okay t...

Is there a theory of this process or at least some terminology? Like I understand what you mean by "abstract-concrete" rule, but where did you get that term from? What are the other types of rules? Is there a theory behind identifying this kind of thinking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

With that said, it is still wild for me to see 2 years of personal expenses drop off in a month. A bad day on the market might be 2-3% down, so depending on how many years of stash you have, it could go a lot faster. To take a year off of 25x requires 4% and that's almost half a correction (or a me...

I also think it is easy to overcomplicate some of this by geeking out on the theory too much. Going back to the example above on health/movement/time-saving devices, one could have a pretty solid start to a robust system with some basic rules like make all/most of your food from scratch, walk or cy...

Stahlmann wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2024 4:04 pm

@jacob
What kind of arena shooter do you play?

The slowest one of the all: viewtopic.php?p=288420#p288420

If money is abundant, why wouldn't I try to own certain things that free up my time**, or even potentially subscribe to them***? The answer is that those things end up owning you, which circles back to my question: how do we balance these trade-offs? [...] Curious how you guys think about the non-m...

Lemur wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2024 8:18 am

Gamestop going bonkers again. Up 74% yesterday. Up 134% pre-market now.

Apparently roaring kitty (the original reddit promoter) came back. There's a documentary with him on netflix.

Scott 2 wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2024 8:45 am

A high score does not indicate autism. The test is used to inform diagnostic strategy, especially in adults. A high masker can fool standard criteria, maybe even unintentionally. But a person could be a high masker for many reasons.

Ah, okay. So e.g. a salesman would likely score very high.

I "won" @Slevin's HTC Vive on the "swap thread" and so I got a chance to try VR for the first time. Wow! This is something else! Setup: The HTC Vive is from 2016(?) which perfectly matches my computer build which is from the same era. I run a GeForce GTX 1060/6GB graphics setup, ...

16+27+37=80 ... It's like I don't even try to understand or hide how I basically don't care for most social interactions beyond knowing enough not to make a scene :-P One comment on the test is that is that the scores between autistics and neurotypicals are very close together. The difference is onl...

And I guess my questions with the needs of modernity are: how do we decide what to "own" vs "subscribe to" vs "quit entirely"? How do you think about those choices? This decision can be complicated(vb) as much as you want, but here's a way to get started (also see ERE ...

in decroissant order of importance knife I find it interesting that "knife" always comes out on top. In a modern world of airplanes and paper, I find a pair of scissors more universally useful. This to the point where I use scissors for typical knife-problems like cutting lettuce, broccol...

A minor "ah-ha" moment I had recently was realizing that Fe-Style Compassion could be spreadsheeted under the realm of Personal Finance in the form of a Non-Profit and this would make it easier to "sell" ERE to those with Fe further up their stack. Very similar to how somebody w...

https://www.amazon.com/Gamesman-New-Cor ... 0671223534 or https://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-gamesme.html

From what I hear, educated Americans go to a therapist all the time, they talk about it as a privilege of social status, and think of it positively. Europeans think mental therapy is for deplorables who have given up on themselves and rely on a state therapist to put them back together. Kind of the...

I also believe that resolving the metacrisis is the most important problem facing humanity. Part of what I was trying to communicate is reflective of feeling mature tertiary Fe compassion for Little Carl Big Carla, Green-Team Jean and Gene, and even 60 year old ESTJ engineers named Hank who are cli...

You think the plumber goes home and belabors his wife with vivid stories of the particularly intransigent pieces of excrement he had to deal with today? Somehow I doubt it. Admittedly only a sample size of one, but one of the in-laws is actually a plumber and every time we meet, it's all he ever ta...

@Kipling - And not just teachers and the school system. After all teachers are also constrained by what they actually can do in terms of individual attention. The precocious student will often have to do with pestering the teacher about advanced/interesting stuff for a few minutes after class and af...

I'm not overthinking this. Eating only once a day makes solving this much easier than having to eat three or six times a day. When we travel $MCD has a deal where buying a burger will get you a free extra burger of the same kind or less the next time you buy one + a receipt to keep repeating the dea...

I'm wondering whether a 1-dimensional table is the best format here. Beyond stage 3, it involves two people each at their own stage. Later stages potentially even more :-P . Getting into the nitty-gritty of matrices and tensors would void the useful parsimony of a table, but how you explain stage N ...