Re: How can I decrease my stupidity?
Disclaimer: My response might be dumb. Read with caution.
IIRC, you were 13ish whenever you started posting? A year ago maybe?
You set off fewer obvious "I am a young teenager" alarms for me than a few young teenagers around here, and I wouldn't insult the intelligence of all that do.
If I were 13/14-ish, I'd probably say something like "Don't listen to everything you hear/ask questions/read a lot". Keep in mind, I was under the impression that I was following said advice, and now I'm pretty sure I wasn't doing it right. It's still a good idea, but... ah... doing it right appears to involve a great deal of luck, effort, and luck, so let's just put it in the "generic but think about it" pile for now.
If I was even worse than I am at modeling other people's reactions, I'd suggest websites (with warnings about things that look enough like Singularity cults that a lot of outsiders r ound up and leave it at that), but that'd be a dumb idea. Especially since certain websites do not appear to have done much for me. So I will in no way suggest that you read a blog that talks about the Bayesian Conspiracy, because then I'd just look dumb. And that's kinda what we're trying to avoid, here.
So, instead, I'll suggest that, if any conversations where this comes up are in a form that can be saved, save them. Don't go nuts over them trying to figure out what happened; people do this over mistakes all the time, and while sometimes it does help for the future, most of the time postfacto rehearsal is just stressful. But finding patterns is nice. It does, though, require a sufficient hypothesis selection ability, which is actually pretty difficult to come up with. Hence, "read a lot".
But, you know, people tend to move toward the average of the people with whom they have the most contact. This has some weird zero sum implica tions (The average stays the same, the worst gets better and the best gets worse), which makes trying to use this to one's advantage into a moral dilemma of sorts (though there are ways to munchkin around this. For example, if one focuses on gaining from a superior group, but all the stronger members of the group have other connections pulling their average upward...). But that's... kinda insane and unreliable and how in the world does someone go shopping for a group of "people smarter than me who I can spend most of my time with but who have even smarter people they can spend enough time with that I don't weaken their smartness"? That, and it's a general rule of thumb, not a hard-and-fast law.
I think this post is a mess. Let's just round to "read a lot" and "try things, and if you don't get frustrated at least monthly, you should probably try harder". But... that last one needs caveats about how one should consider evidence (and the strength of said evidence) before deciding what to try (i.e., if there's ample evidence that something is self-destructive, probably shouldn't try it. But research the evidence to be sure you understand it right. So don't jump off bridges, because that generally results in injuries or death or at least a visit to the police/mental hospital. The evidence for that is pretty strong: gravity and bone-breakage don't magically stop working below bridges. If a troll tells you otherwise, laugh at them for being from a medieval fairytale, then ask them to star in your epic feature-length live-action retelling of the Billy Goats Gruff.)
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