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Author: futurisold

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 Below is a collection of personal principles I _guide_ my life by. The list might shrink or grow as I learn more.
 1. Always invert. Happiness is a slippery target, so flip the problem: learn the art of not-being-miserable.
-2. Life is a colossal constraint-optimization problem, enacted solely within the local theater of your subjective experience.
+2. Life is a colossal local-optimization, constraint-satisfaction problem, enacted solely within the theater of your subjective experience.
 3. Attention is the first domino. It is the foundational currency of experience, so be intentional and ruthless in its allocation.
 4. I trust the craft practiced while ecstatic, grieving, wired, bored, or half-asleep; if you're tired, do it tired. Mastery that survives mood swings is the only mastery.
 5. Repetition rarely makes things easier; it makes you tougher.
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 12. The most valuable skills are transferable and abstract. Metacognition, problem-dissection, story-telling—these transfer everywhere.
 13. Metaphysical truths show up for anyone willing to ride a thought-experiment all the way to its unsettling end.
 14. The simulation hypothesis is very much on the menu.
-15. God is an antimeme.
+15. God is an antimeme. In other words, attempts to define, depict or "prove" God leave only an outline: a "negative space" we try to infer divinity from. The divine is **unknowable by direct description**.
 16. Your brain excels at simulating realities, making it an exceptional predictive engine.
 17. Truest intuition—pertaining to highly accurate predictions—is **somatic** and you can train yourself to recognize it. It bears penetrating insights that don't defy logic but rather shortcut it.
 18. Personal growth obeys the Lindy effect: your vices and virtues persist in proportion to their age.
 19. Trust the process, not the outcome. The compound effect _compounds_ despite the lack of an immediate feedback.
 20. Embrace a lifelong sport; the body's wisdom reveals truths no word can convey. Your body is the first and last frontier of experience.
 21. Cultivate an intimate relationship with your subconscious. A dream is decoded lossy data your brain signals to itself.
+22. Fixed choices are sleight of hand—remember Caesar at Alesia: build the wall no one expects.
+23. "_Tempt fate with your own purpose_".
 
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