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Scopes Interacting with Life

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My Notebook #philosophy #featured #my take #competition 14 Scopes Interacting with Life 2024-05-03 · 5 min read How our interactions are affected by the scope we interpret the world in This is an addition on my past post on Simulations. I would suggest reading it (it's quick): TLDR; I think that when acting people live in layered abstractions on reality that make actions easier. Think "Doing homework is good." where as a value system it is generally good, but of course can have faults (ie. if a piano is about to fall on your head in 5 seconds but you haven't finished your pset). A lot of general ennui comes from too many abstractions to which people forget what they actually want—people should probably introspect and minimize/be intentional with their abstractions. Scopes In addition to simulations, I think a very important thing to note with decision making is scope. If you imagine simulations as extending your "decision realm" vertically, I would say scope is horizontal to that—what

Scopes Interacting with Life My Notebook # philosophy # featured # my take # competition 20 Scopes Interacting with Life 2024-05-03 · 6 min read How our interactions are affected by the scope we interpret the world in This is an addition on my past post on Simulations . I would suggest reading it (it's quick): TLDR; I think that when acting people live in layered abstractions on reality that make actions easier. Think "Doing homework is good." where as a value system it is generally good, but of course can have faults (ie. if a piano is about to fall on your head in 5 seconds but you haven't f

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