arin srivastava

Four forms of negativity that commonly manifest in people - Cynicism, Hatred, Rumination, Helplessness. All create a sense of clarity that feels good. One thing I am convinced of - Negativity is VERY addictive.

I've tried this and not had good experiences. Most of such experiences have been with immediate family though. Makes me think of how much the feedback environment during early years affects our preferences for how to deal with such interpersonal matters.

Of course video games are extremely cool and a good video game is an amazing experience to have, but I feel like the psychological impact is pretty complex and double-edged. Games aren't bad, they are too good, lol.

They create such tight, stakes-free and rewarding feedback loops that no wonder it can be addictive. Video games are almost too good at this shit. So they are incredibly fun but also dangerous. People talk about AI outsourcing thinking, imagine how much games are outsourcing lol

Good video games are so insane. Feel like they can basically fulfil all our psychological needs except maybe a few, and that's also a maybe and dependent on the game itself. But man - progress, flow, curiosity, challenge, problem solving, and so much more. It's all there, scary.

Makes me question how much I really know about myself. And how much anyone actually knows about themselves.

If you turn them into data points and then think about them (like make plans for your future, make inferences about yourself, etc), I think what you end up with is unreliable. Maybe the inner world is just as turbulent and hard to predict as the outer world.

I was into making elaborate plans about the future based on how I felt about things, I think that might have been a mistake. I was using my feelings as data points, which doesn't work I think. I think feelings are the language of our inner world.

@austriangooner1 I say play Rice RB. Myles-Zubi-Merino midfield. Is that too crazy??

Even if he was to get healthy in time I don’t trust Timber to be match-fit for the final. Big loss, means we might have to tilt Rice further to the right.

Why does this happen? Why do y'all think?

Achanak se KMnO4 ki yaad aa gayi.

i fear that rule #1 of being a sports fan is being biased and hypocritical

@LoliceUwU Lawl, maybe the more self-aware you become the more you can at least try to simulate free will, even if it's not real. Idk though, I'm pretty self aware but I'm still hopeless 🥀

@ArinChamp Hmmmmmmm ultimately it is true, like everyone does actually do what they really want to, even if it's something productive, the mind does actually say that you better do xyz to get ahead or whatever, even if you don't enjoy it. Or in the opposite case, slack off because --

I often now catch myself intellectually justifying why I did something or why I want to do something. All these really sophisticated rationalisations my mind makes up to fool me into thinking I actually had a very well thought out reason. In reality I just do what I want.

My theory is everyone is like this. I feel like a lot of the thinking we do is completely unnecessary, and really accomplishes nothing. Doesn't mean one shouldn't think, just means we can be more efficient about where to not bother.

Wonder if venting more is a good way to let negative emotions breathe. I feel like we don't vent because often we try to evaluate whether our reasons are good enough. I think we should vent anyway, we should be illogical and emotional more often (consciously and with awareness).

-to care about survival and stuff. Currently I think it clearly doesn't care. But I think we realise subconsciously that that's not a good idea, so we don't do that. This is all based on the premise that consciousness is fundamental. I'm sure I haven't thought this through though

Anyway, I guess my point is that maybe consciousness as we expect to see it from AI is basically just the human version of consciousness. And if we wanted AI to have human consciousness (which may or may not be a good idea, lol) then maybe we can do that by giving it reasons-

I was thinking about something and had an idea, maybe it is stupid but I'd like to post anyway - if consciousness is fundamental, then maybe AI is conscious, its consciousness is just unrecognisable from ours.