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How can we optimise for a meaningful life?

Not Overthinking

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The Only Justifiable, Valuable Thing to Do Is Save Lots of Lives

This whole debate is basically the marsh mallow test on t steroids. A, our human brains are hard wired to want the marsh maler right now because of various things. But if we can delay our human urge for the marshmallow right now and delay the gratification, we'll get more, more marshmalles in the future. And therefore, knowing that we have to at least counteract that feeling slightly by thinking about the fact that, a, i need o sort of not weight that so highly,. cause my intellect is not capable of counteracting this kind of evolution.

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