The Dead Planet Theory

post by arealsociety (shane-zabel) · 2025-03-07T02:43:01.323Z · LW · GW · 0 comments

This is a link post for https://open.substack.com/pub/arealsociety/p/the-dead-planet-theory

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Hi, this is my first post on LessWrong but I have been in rationalist adjacent circles for the last three or four years thanks to Twitter. Like many others here I read HPMOR in high school and thought it was fascinating. I was heavily into forum culture growing up but it was focused on competitive gaming scenes, even going pro on World of Tanks. I spent over six years working in offensive cybersecurity, help manage my family farm and ranch, and am currently attending law school after I got sucked into the field because I thought the LSAT was a fun test.

Through Twitter I learned more about rationalism as a community rather than a concept, and met several people in person through meetups and one-on-one meetings. I recently started writing to get some of the ideas bouncing around my head out on paper. Nothing I have written about yet is too novel conceptually, so I try to use data, real world examples, or lived experiences to bring these concepts to life. One thing I've noticed is that rationalists are very intelligent, and can use that intelligence to find very good reasons not to do something. I am a massive proponent for action, and believe that by pursuing life you will be rewarded. 

No one does anything, so with just a little effort you can automatically join the top 20% of any activity or pursuit. I wrote an article on how few people even start, as well as some ways to enable extraordinary outcomes with marginally more effort. I thought this audience would enjoy it as it was very well received on rationalist Twitter.

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