Titanius Maximus

@cremieuxrecueil First and foremost, don't worry, don't resent, forgive all, find inner peace, and a way to deal with life, maintaining a general sense of calm and happiness. the body is secondary

Practically, the only rigorously proven things you can do for life extension right now are: - Don't be fat - Be fit - Control your blood sugar - Control your blood pressure - Have low cholesterol - Don't poison yourself Almost everything else is speculative and dubious.

@dotkrueger What's insane is using the words "believer" and "bitcoin" in the same sentence. It's not a religion. It's an asset with incredibly predictable cyclic behavior.

Loukas is a non believer. How he sees the next 3 months going in a very specific pattern is insane to me.

@QuoteJung It would appear he's found his largest burden and is suffering for it. His entire philosophy is based on suffering and arguments. He is now living the consequences of that mindset. As we all do for ours. Maybe choose joy and love for purpose and see how that translates.

The previous Jordan Peterson quote generated a lot of interesting comments and discussions. What is your take on this quote?

@SahilBloom Deciding to confront the reasons for my autoimmune disease that was causing my life to be hell. The cause was of course on the inside - in my mind. Once I figured it out, I chose to let the situation and accompanied emotions go, and I cured a 15 year lasting incurable disease.

What is the single best health investment you’ve ever made?

The level of detachment it requires to succeed in trading makes a man dead inside.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” -George Orwell, 1984.

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@Nebraskangooner still icky, and confused as to why all the bullishness on my timeline for btc, when nothing has changed at all

How's everyone feeling about the markets this week?

@prinkasusa that's what any normal, good person would do

I started my period unexpectedly at work and bled through onto an office chair. I was mortified because my manager was a man. I told him, bracing for humiliation. You know what he did? He didn’t make me clean the stain while panicking. He quietly got cleaning supplies, took care of the chair, handed me his jacket to tie around my waist, made sure I had pads, and helped me find a change of clothes. No jokes. No disgust. No scene. He just made sure I was okay.

Oh the irony of the failure to understand that such abundance is possible and indeed probable because we are already living in it right now. Compared to the lives of people living even 100 years ago, an average person has more abundance than kings of old.

@omgsidewalks Don't bother trying to save people from themselves. They'll resent it, won't listen, and who knows, they might need the lessons. Besides, you know nothing as everyone of us lives a different life in a different reality.

I'm 22. Please recommend to me oddly specific life tips. No general “surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible please.

Back when BMW made beautiful cars

Your hippocampus doesn't encode days that feel identical. If this Tuesday looks like last Tuesday, your brain files them as a single compressed memory. The second day never gets its own folder. This is why decades feel like they disappeared. The hippocampus uses novelty as its filter for "worth storing." Repetitive routines trigger temporal compression. Same commute, same desk, same dinner, same bedtime: the brain deduplicates the whole sequence into one entry. You lived 365 days. You filed 40. Research from Jeffrey Zacks at Washington University has tracked this with fMRI. As people move through continuous experience, the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex fire in discrete bursts at moments the brain flags as "something changed." Each burst becomes a retrievable memory later. In stretches with no boundaries, the bursts flatten. Participants with more boundaries in a given period remembered more of it afterward. Segmentation literally builds memory. Sleep is the second mechanism. During slow-wave sleep, the hippocampus replays the day's episodes and transfers them to the neocortex for long-term storage. This is when memory actually gets filed. Cut sleep short and encoding efficiency drops. Chronic sleep debt means experiences you had never complete the transfer. The memory existed. It just never made it to disk. The third mechanism is where dopamine meets attention. Novel stimuli trigger the ventral tegmental area to release dopamine into the hippocampus, which gates what gets encoded. Mind-wandering does the opposite. When your default mode network takes over (phone scrolling, rumination, email during dinner), the hippocampus stops tagging the present. You were at the wedding. Your hippocampus was in your inbox. Three independent systems working against you. Novelty collapse compressing repetitive days into single entries. Sleep debt blocking consolidation. Default mode network swallowing attention before encoding completes. The fix comes straight out of the mechanism. New locations, new food, new people, new routes home. The brain needs boundaries to build memories. Go to bed earlier so replay actually runs. Put the phone down when something is happening so the dopamine signal can fire. The more forgettable the day, the shorter the decade.

Being against UBI is totally fine. But so many of the arguments people make against it insult my intelligence. For example, the idea that if people aren't forced to work, they will lose all meaning. Many people dislike their jobs so much that they would trade working just to survive for the possibilities downtime opens up. Since when do we find meaning in doing something we despise? Has work for survival become our new idol? What about spiritual work, reading and studying, teaching, family time, growing food, working out, enjoying hobbies, and so forth? I'd flip this whole conversation—the fact that so many people think work is the primary source of meaning is a bigger problem than people having the option not to work. And UBI wouldn’t make working impossible; it just means people could be much more selective about what kind of work they do. That’s freedom and agency at its best.

This is probably one of the more important pages I have ever read. Carl Jung at 84, one year from his death. "One cannot do more than live what one really is." Jung is saying there is no level above being yourself. And being yourself might be the hardest thing of all. Because it means living in truth with what you actually are, including your tensions, contradictions, limitations, instincts, and complexity. Too often people are trying to become more than themselves, when the people who seem most deeply satisfied in life have usually become more of themselves. More in tune with their own nature. More willing to live their life their way. Jung believed most of our troubles come when we have lost contact with our guiding instincts... I think that's true. I'm still waiting to find someone deeply satisfied in life who is disconnected from themselves, abandoning their own nature, and living someone else’s script. Acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the acid test of one’s whole outlook on life. This page also says that suffering is unavoidable. This is necessary suffering. Life will bring pain and heartbreak. Uncertainty is unavoidable. Grief will show up at your door when you least expect it. Hard decisions will come. But there is also unnecessary suffering, the suffering that comes from resisting what is happening, refusing what life is asking of you, or not living true to yourself. That type of suffering seems to eat at your soul. I have come to the conclusion that it is better to Live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result - because avoidance is much worse. Better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to perform an imitation of someone else’s life perfectly. You can contort yourself, wear every mask, and distract yourself, but eventually you will need to answer, Am I really living life my way?

@GamewithDave Command and conquer red alert, warcraft, golden axe...

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@sciencegirl Old enough to miss it

Are you old enough to remember this

Society is ugly. The world is beautiful. Don’t confuse the two.