LESSWRONG
LW

All of Fuglinnavon's Comments + Replies

What do you actually do to replenish your willpower?
Fuglinnavon20

To replenish my willpower, i watch a lot of TEDx conferences about positivity, mindset, success and ways of working and i write down what i've learned after each conference and i think about it. Also, when i just can't begin to work, i go outside for a long run with motivating music or i do some yoga. To sum up, you just have to create your own motivation/willpower rituals, just observe your way of living and the things that motivate you and try to use them as a tool to replenish your willpower.

Reply
Positivity Thread :)
Fuglinnavon90

It's good to see that LW too can be really human sometimes

Reply
List of techniques to help you remember names
Fuglinnavon20

Because i have a visual memory, i can easily remember names if i associate them to a special detail of the appearence of the person.

Reply
Stupid Questions November 2015
Fuglinnavon20

In your opinion, what is the age and the average level of study of the users of LessWrong ?

Reply
ChristianKl130

We have a census that tells you the answer: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lhg/2014_survey_results/

Reply
Stupid questions thread, October 2015
Fuglinnavon20

I wanted to mean that even if they grow, they're becoming too big for the humans and a small or medium group of persons or at least a very small society is maybe more adapted to us

Reply
Stupid questions thread, October 2015
Fuglinnavon00

Are you serious lol ? You understood what i meant don't be like that ! We can observe too that humans who are very very happy in such big societies are not many and the proportions of unhappy people is growing while societies grow too ; so i was wondering if a big society is the best way to live for an average human and you understood me well!

Reply
Stupid questions thread, October 2015
Fuglinnavon-10

Thank you for your answer i was thinking the same way ! And yes it was the meaning of my question thank you !

Reply
Stupid questions thread, October 2015
Fuglinnavon00

Yeah sorry in fact i'm french and the expression to say that is "fait pour vivre" and i translated it literally . I just wanted to ask if the humans are biolocally and mentally very able to live in a big society like ours and if it's a product of the evolution.

Reply
-10ChristianKl
0SilentCal
Also might want to take a look at http://squid314.livejournal.com/340809.html
Stupid questions thread, October 2015
Fuglinnavon-20

Yeah but even if it's known that the human kindis a "social kind" i don't think such big societies are very necessary ...

Reply
0Shmi
What do you mean by "necessary"? They certainly grow organically.
Stupid questions thread, October 2015
Fuglinnavon00

Is the human kind made to live in such big societies ?

Reply
4Dagon
Others have pointed out that you're asking an incoherent question. I'd like to state that even if you refine it to something like "can modern humans be very happy in a big society" (or whatever you do actually mean), you still have the problem of "compared to what"? Even if you conclude "the average and median human was happier 10000 years ago", you'll face the (Mere Addition Paradox/ Repugnant Conclusion)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox]. You'll have to figure out how to compare over 7 billion just-OK lives in big societies against a few tens of million pretty-good lives for hunter-gatherers.
6MathiasZaman
(Is "Are big societies optimal for human happiness/quality of life," a fair rephrasing of your question?) I've been asking myself similar questions lately. As pointed out "made to live" implies things that never happened, in that humans weren't created, nor were the current societies/civilizations ever consciously designed or created. They just sort of happened. Since both humans and societies got to where they are through mostly unthinking processes, it's easy to see how things didn't end up optimal. Humans were hunter-gatherers for most of their existence. It's hard to intuitively grasp how long a time that is, but I find this quote helpful (source): Without wanting to get into bad evolutionary sciences, I think it's reasonably fair that even modern humans are mostly adapted for the hunter-gatherer life, with a couple of more modern modules thrown in. It's also reasonably fair that humans were mostly "made" to live in small tribes, hunting and gathering. Agriculture (and later writing, the printing press, the Industrial Revolution, computers...) gave us reasons to not be hunter-gatherers any more and my naive assessment is that a good number of those reasons are good ones. It's just that our bodies and brains haven't caught up. So where am I going with this? I'm not sure. What I'm trying to say is that I think it's better to say that (our) big societies weren't made for humans (at least, they're not optimal for humans), rather than saying that humans weren't made for big societies.
-9ChristianKl
5Bryan-san
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/05/a-cascade-of-dunbar-numbers/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number Those links may interest you
1Shmi
Depends on what you mean by "made to live". We certainly gravitate toward them.
Group Rationality Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015
Fuglinnavon20

Lol yeah real life is very hard too! Beautiful metaphor ! I'll probably wish that when i'll be an adult ...

Reply
Group Rationality Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015
Fuglinnavon20

Haha my hobby is medecine and biology and all the couses are paying... And i really can't skip a class because i'm on my last highscool year ! The french school system is really really bad i'm just in highscool because i want to do a job later in my life but all i have to do in school is work and work on boring things... And many of my classmates agree with me we also want to learn the real life and not only theory !

Reply
3Viliam
You can find free courses of biology for example here. Also, you could download some books. The last year... well, the good news is that it will soon be over. Guess what I do for money, LOL. I wish I could go back to high school where I would have the whole afternoons for myself. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Group Rationality Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015
Fuglinnavon30

Thank you ! yeah i'm gonna get this diploma (it's called baccalaureat in france :) ) i'm learning some things on internet like interesting languages ( i love the icelandic languages ) etc...

Reply
Group Rationality Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015
Fuglinnavon00

Thank you for your propositions :) i don't think i'm gay or asexual because i do have some fantasms on girls so i'm maybe scared of getting closer to a girl or scared of intimacy ! I only know my body and i realize that it's very hard for me to think that i could share another body than mine

Reply
6Viliam
My stereotypical advice for everyone: dancing lessons. You will become comfortable with bodies.
Group Rationality Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015
Fuglinnavon40

For the annals of "Today i learned About Myself"

During my 3 years of highschool, i really wished a girlfriend because i was feeling lonely all the time and it was very difficult for me... So i began to look for a girlfrien and i noticed that many girls wanted to date me and i don't know why but every time i was getting closer to a girl i felt the desire to never talk to her again... It's very weird and i can't explain it it's a very new experience for me and that's probably why i'm fleeing.

Reply
4Viliam
Use some psychologist to find out; the information may be important. Meanwhile, here are some random guesses: * getting closer to a girl is very stressful, so at some moment you just want to have less stress in your life; * initially you lower your expectations, because getting "any girlfriend" seems like the priority, but once you have a realistic chance, you realize that you actually do have expectations, and she does not meet them; * you are actually gay or asexual, and you only want a girlfriend because of social pressure; * you are scared of intimacy or sex, so you stop the process when the danger becomes too real. The advice will be different depending on the real course. For example, if you are a gay or asexual, I would say "stop pushing yourself to do something you actually don't want to do"; if you are scared of intimacy, I would suggest a therapy; if you have too high expectations, I would remind you that dating is not a lifetime contract, and you can also have fun and sex with someone whom you plan to replace later (this may sound evil, but it's what many people do).
Group Rationality Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015
Fuglinnavon30

I'm in highschool and i feel the same as you, i feel that the highschool has nothing left to learn to me and i really want to go to college now because i'm very bored when i can't learn anything from anyone.

Reply
5Viliam
You can learn a lot from online courses. Maybe you can start working on your own project. Doing real-life stuff is often more complicated that learning the same thing in school. (Okay, it depends on what you want to learn. My hobby is computer programming, so there are thousands of books and tutorials available.) Too bad the high school is a waste of time, but you only have to do it once in your life. Is there an option to skip a grade? That would save you a whole year of time, and simultaneously provide a greater challenge (learning the two-years worth of school knowledge in one year).
8polymathwannabe
Please make sure you get that high school diploma, even if it requires switching schools or doing advanced/short courses or whatever options are available in your country. Ask your teachers if they can give you harder assignments so you stay interested, or give yourself harder assignments. But whatever you do, get that diploma. Your life will be much easier that way.