somervta comments on The mechanics of my recent productivity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: somervta 09 January 2014 01:16:15AM 9 points [-]

To a large extent, my monkey brain still believes that the world is too big and the forces are too strong and I don't have the power to affect the future or save the world. Of course, after absorbing some of the LW hero memes, my monkey brain also thinks that I ought to want to save the world.

This. It creates some interesting conflict when these two attitudes arise simultaneously