There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

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Cake day: September 15th, 2026

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  • No one is stopping me from becoming a different person if I wanted to so the fact that I’m not taking dramatic steps to change indicates that I’m probably roughly where I want to be.

    I do admire people like Andrew Camarata for their work ethic, but again - nothing is stopping me from doing the same, yet I don’t, so maybe I just want the results, not what it actually takes to get there.

    My role model is Snufkin character from the Moomin cartoon/anime. A quiet, humble, independent professional.


  • Nobody needs X is a moot point. You also don’t need the vast majority of your possessions. Some things are simply nice to have, especially when you can afford them. There are just things that you don’t like other people having.

    Also, the chance of you dying on a place crash either as a passenger or a person on the ground is astronomically small. 104 people died in a car crash yesterday in the US alone and this is true for every single day of the year.




  • There is no single right answer to that as nobody knows what the actual outcome of it would be.

    Best case scenario is that AI (and advanced robots) do everything you don’t want to do and you can focus on the other things. It would cancel the need for human labour and theoretically has the capability to answer all questions and solve all problems that there is a solution to.

    In the worst case it either destroys us entirely or worse, creates a hell for us to live in.

    An every imaginable scenario in between.











  • Yes, not even the worst people you can imagine. I don’t believe in free will so I don’t view these people as ultimately responsible for what they are. They could not be have acted otherwise and any kind of punishment carries the implicit assumption that they could have but actively choose not to.

    If someone intentionally causes immense suffering to others and is unable to stop that behaviour then I think these people should be locked away. Not as a punishment but to defend the innocent. If a bear wanders into a neighbourhood and mauls a person, we shoot the bear but not out of retribution. If we could tell it to go back to the forest and stay there, and it did, then it wouldn’t make much sense to follow it there and make it suffer to even things out, would it?



  • There would definitely be a disproportionate amount of violence in the men’s side of the planet but I still think you’re not quite giving men enough credit there - after all we’re evolved for teamwork. Random group of men put together tend to naturally form a group hierarchy and pick a leader. Not always peacefully, though.



  • Ideally you should find a resident couple. That way you know you’re always interacting with the same birds. Then you just wait and offer them food and let them come get it instead of taking it to them. They observe you closely and they will remember and recognize you. The intention is to teach to them that you’re not a threat and that you reliably produce food.