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INTP Musings
by Friend Francis
INTP musings consists of an informal spouting of my ramblings on topics ranging from science, to economics, to philosophy, and other far flung regions in the sphere of human thought.Email me at [email protected] to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/INTP_Musings/
Episodes
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Attention and curiosity
Attention and curiosity
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Revising our relationship with the unknown
Revise your relationship with the unknown and change your life.
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Trolls and misinformation: a symptom of the early internet
This is the final episode of season 1. Thanks for joining me on this journey. In this episode, we discuss a hypothesis about internet trolling and misinformation. I provide two pieces of evidence along with one personal anecdote supporting this hypothesis. These are given in the episode and are…
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You can’t binge on good (or bad) behavior
One of the things I am learning as I go through life is that you can’t binge on good behavior and expect a good life. What I mean by that is if your behavioral norms are corrupted, you can’t do the occasional good or even the occasional VERY good deed and expect your life to improve significantly...
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Why do anything?
Are nihilists correct? Is there a point to anything? Are there any effective counterarguments to the nihilistic assertion that life is meaningless? There is little to be found in terms of solid logical counterarguments when it comes to arguing against a nihilist. It always requires a leap of…
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Knowledge-centric and task-centric careers
In this episode, we discuss two different career types. In my view, all careers fall somewhere in this dualistic spectrum: knowledge-centric careers (minority) and task centric careers (majority). We discuss the dynamics between people on different ends of the spectrum, and how these can bring...
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The path to right-wing extremism
The path to right wing extremism involves the extraction of men from society who don’t feel useful or like their life has a point. Every man has the desire for meaning, and the chance to contribute and improve their world. The views and beliefs are extreme, but I would argue that the men…
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Regeneration and investment
No summary today. You’ll have to listen to the podcast.
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Nature's challenge
Nothing is more oppressive than nature. We as humans spend a lot of time trying to correct the wrongs of others. We want to see justice and ensure fairness, so we have laws and things like that. This is a noble pursuit, BUT we spend far less time trying to decouple ourselves from the oppression…
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Consume boring content and do boring things
In this episode, we discuss why everyone should be consuming more “boring” content and doing more “boring” things. Boring has a bad connotation, but boring is actually good, because when nothing is happening, then nothing bad is happening. Unfortunately, “nothing bad happened today” is not a...
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Monopolies are bad
Alphabet has a monopoly on SEARCH (Google) and VIDEO (youtube). This is bad. How much money will it take to bribe them to only show traditional media, or to give it preferential treatment in the search algorithm? Or perhaps a traditional media company bribes the government in their country to ban...
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Properties of power
In this episode, we discuss the properties of power. Many people like to assign a value to power – power is bad, they say. Power is good, they say. Power is actually just a neutral property. It is a quantity that different people, places, and things have different amounts of. Power can be used…
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Non-negotiable things
Most people growing up have at least one non-negotiable thing imposed by their parents, usually in the form of a belief about they way the world is, or about things they have to do if they want to be okay. This almost always leads to either the kids strongly opposing this non-negotiable thing for…
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Viewing a wider world
Today we’ll discuss how the same thing from different perspectives might as well be an entirely different thing, and how the possibilities of human experience are infinite, even for a person with a seemingly boring life. Most humans fall into the trap of thinking their experience is too small, or...
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Dictator or power vacuum. Which is worse?
Which is worse? A dictator or a power vacuum? Both of these things have negatives. In a dictatorship, there is no freedom and everyone has to do what the dictator says or risk being jailed or killed. But, in a dictatorship, everyone knows who is in charge and what to expect. This is a form of...
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Humanity grew too fast
This is a controversial opinion episode and I don’t necessarily stand by all the statements. This is one way to look at the way in which humanity grew, and it may or may not be correct. There are several other alternative perspectives that I touch on briefly at the end of the episode that are...
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Belief threshold
People have a low threshold of evidence to belive/accept things other people believe, but they have a high threshold to accept things other people don’t believe. All it takes for someone to change a belief isto meet a good number of people, that they consider kind and reasonable at a time when…
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Simple seeming things are difficult
Everything looks easy and is easy to judge from far away. When people see someone else doing something, especially someone considered a professional, they assume the job is easier than it is, especially if they’ve dabbled in it a bit and are familiar enough to understand a few things, but not...
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Sloppy work
Sloppy work is worth avoiding as it puts short term gains ahead of long term growth. In this episode, I discuss the value of doing things properly; crossing one’s t’s and dotting one’s i’s. It may seem like the slower, less efficient way to do something, but in the long term it is actually more...
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Things that can't be proven
This episode is about things that can’t be proven. This topic is explored from two different sides, and we’ll answer three different questions about this topic from both sides. I believe these questions are worth asking because lots of people put lots of energy into things that are unproven…
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Persistence
In this episode, I describe the benefits of taking a leap of faith and continuously coming back to something that you are learning that is completely new and alien to you. This is persistence. Even if you feel totally overwhelmed and ignorant every time you sit down to study that thing, the...
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Three domains of work
In this podcast, I define three domains of white collar work in the 20th century. In particular, white collar work where one makes $70k a year or more, or white collar work where you work for yourself and develop your own business. This type of work has 3 domains that need to be explored, and how...
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Outliers
In this episode, I discuss how outliers are really the only ones doing interesting things. New, interesting things happen at the edges. Unfortuntely, human beings have a tendency to coalesce around the status quo, and dismiss, and even ostracize outliers. In this episode, I make the case for why...
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Diversify your self-worth
In this episode, I talk about diversifying your self worth. One’s perceived self value should extend beyond one’s job and family commitments, because these are areas that are not fully within one’s control. One should try hard to get good at something completely unrelated to these domains;...
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Usefulness of knowledge
The way that the usefulness of knowledge accumulates is very similar to to that of compound interest in the sense that when you are a child, you learn so much information, and none of it seems to enable you to produce value for society and make money. You have to learn basic skills like reading,...
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Benevolent Dictator
In this episode, I discuss “the benevolent dictator that people want”. Not limited to human form, this benevolent dictator can just as easily be a challenging life event that forces one to change and adapt as it can be a person that comes into one’s life suddenly and without one’s full consent,...
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Authoritarianism perpetuates
Human societies always trend toward authoritarianism, or non-meritocratic hierarchical structures lacking in freedom and egalitarianism. I make several compelling arguments for how this is the end fate for every long lived, large human society in this episode. No matter how good they become at…
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Awesomeness
In this episode, I talk about awesomeness, superiority, and how people respond to it. I define two different types of awesome and how people interact with those types of awesome individuals. The three types of people that awesome people will come in contact with are haters, admirers and…
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Purify what sustains you
In this episode, I delve into the concept of “purifying what sustains you”. It is essentially the act of leveling up what you do in your free time to be both better for you and for the world in the long term. Engaging in this act means different things to different people, because everyone is at…
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Paying for limitation
In this episode, I explore the differences between freedom and constraint, or freedom and limitation, and talk about how, in many cases, constraint is more desirable than freedom, to the extent that some people would even pay for constraint in certain scenarios. Both freedom and limitation have...
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Institutions
In this episode, I talk about institutions: what I think their purpose is, the things that can go wrong with them and the severe harm they can cause, and ultimately, why human beings will continue to create them regardless. In the end, I conclude that institutions are necessary for human...
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Public resources
In this episode, I argue that any resource that can be made public should be. This is a very liberal position to take. However, I make a conservative argument for this liberal position. I basically assert that public resources free up capital for industries where true innovation is occurring....
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Hyperconsent
In this episode, I explain the importance of a concept that I refer to as "hyperconsent". The ideal thing to strive for when interacting with others in a give and take sort of way, hyperconsent occurs when both parties desire the interaction with 100% of their being. Oftentimes, people find...
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Creating the scientific community of the 21st century
There has been a large, and successful push lately to increase interest in science. In this episode, I argue that, in order to create the most productive scientific community for the 21st century, we need to go beyond interest. There need to be people actively communicating what it means to be a...
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Virtual empathy
Someday soon, I think VR will be leveraged to facilitate empathic experiences for people. It will allow people to have an experience in VR that has likely been experienced by a person in history. Imagine being able to experience being black man in the Jim Crow south being chased by an angry white...
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Questions Google Can't Answer
There is an infinite array of questions that Google can't answer for a variety of reasons. I delve into this concept in depth in this episode. Reasons range from questions being obscure, technical, and oddly specific - too specific to possibly be on Google, and perhaps a trade secret somewhere…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
INTP musings consists of an informal spouting of my ramblings on topics ranging from science, to economics, to philosophy, and other far flung regions in the sphere of human thought.Email me at [email protected] to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/INTP_Musings/
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Friend Francis
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INTP musings consists of an informal spouting of my ramblings on topics ranging from science, to economics, to philosophy, and other far flung regions in the sphere of human thought.Email me at [email protected] to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/INTP_Musings/
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