Rasmus's blog

20-year-old boy from Finland who likes Nordic Combined, Books, Coding, Video effects and so much more, but I'm trying to focus my energy on those things:)

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Curiosity killer

I got a taste of freedom this summer. I was the happiest and most productive I've ever been. I became curious again, curious about the world. I started choosing my battles, not the other way around. And yes, I struggled hard with those battles, but it still felt like play to me.

My curiosity chose programming to be one of those battles. I liked it so much that I decided to study it in school. I'm now two months in, and I feel like crap. I still like everything they teach here, but I'm far from productive, and I'm not having as much fun learning as in summer. It all comes from the obligation to do so - it's not the same when you are told what to learn. I know this is how the world works and all, and I can't always do whatever I want. At least my dad says that. I don't know...yet. I can only imagine if schools encouraged curiosity - what would the world look like then?

This following quote is from Naval Ravikant.

"A taste of freedom can make you unemployable." - @naval

I think it sums up what I felt. I know I haven't done any real work or whatever and I probably have so much shit to still grow from, but this is how i felt today.

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Based on all these sensors in our body, the brain is creating "reality." So when there happens to be a collision between old memory and the new experience, we could see that "collision" as anxiety or some other feeling. Another question is, to whom are these feelings arising to? If our mind is creating these feelings, what/who is receiving them?

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Right this moment has no time and the moment second later has no time either, but apparently this brain makes a connection between the two states and calls it time.

But how can we even change our state if there is never time to change it? There should literally not be a single moment where we could have time to change it.

Does this mean we cannot change the motions of our atoms? Would there be free will anymore?

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On a spaceship moving near lightspeed linearly away from earth, the time goes more slowly if observed from earth. Apparently the movement can be linear or circular. This means that if someone were to orbit the earth fast enough for a while, he would come back younger to us. He would have felt like he was away only a day, but we on earth would see him be there years.

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Always wrong

We really can’t know anything; we can only take our best guesses. Not long ago, humans were sure that the earth was in the middle and the sun traveled went around us, but of course, now we have a better guess. There’s an infinite amount of things that could affect our perception of something, which means we can only try to make better misconceptions.

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I got to respect the graphics in the game of life. And literally almost no latency either.

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How we think a task or skill is learned:

-100 ways which it could be done in our head and we should try all of the in order.

How it's actually learned:

-100 ways, but the first try eliminates 80% of the options and the next try eliminates the rest.

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The thing I've noticed recently about decision making and overall paths on life is that whatever I've chosen to do, has always lead me where I wanted to go. I have spent way too much time waiting for the right "path" to appear. The magic word is "action", if I take action and see that this road was deadend, this "deadend" will always give me directions where I should search next.

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If we look at how many years of human lives covid has taken from us:

-There are 4,5M covid deaths, which counts for 67,5M years from human life(when avg. covid death makes a life about 15 years shorter).

-There are 7 Billion people on this earth who have suffered 1,5 years of their life, that counts for 10,5 Billion years from human lives lost.

Covid deaths don't seem that bad anymore, do they?

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Life is a game.

Life is a game. Our mind is the NPC who tries to take over and our body is the character that we control. The body feels what the NPC tells but doesn't react until we move the joystick.

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How long until when we have all knowledge ever known only one thought away?

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I'm 20 and a half years old now

If I don't write my thoughts down, I can't remember what I've been thinking when I was 20 which is right now. I'm 20 only once, it's amazing, I can never tell anyone ever that I'm 20 again after this year. If I die without writing my thoughts, no one can learn from my mistakes. Even if no one reads these, I think I'll enjoy reading these a lot when I'm older. I wish I would have written more of my thoughts younger.

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Can we simulate human evolution with ai?

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Disgusting?

"Disgusting"-verb is really subjektive.

Slimy body is disgusting to us, but I don't think worms find it that way.

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Fish are in water

Fish can't see the water they are living in, we can't see the air we are living in, is there some other living creature that treats us, like we treat fish? What if someone is "fishing" us?  They could be saying, "I caught a young individual," and we'd say, "oh, he left so young."

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“All people know is what you’ve chosen to show them.“

-Derek Sivers

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“One of the problems is that schools and our educational system, and even our way of raising children replaces curiosity with compliance. And once you replace the curiosity with the compliance, you get an obedient factory worker, but you no longer get a creative thinker. And you need creativity, you need the ability to feed your own brain to learn whatever you want.”

-Naval