EI's Shortform

post by EI · 2021-10-21T01:54:26.169Z · LW · GW · 3 comments

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comment by EI · 2021-10-21T01:35:43.744Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Emotional investment is probably a more accurate form of currency than anything else. Probably the hardest thing to be self-aware of in terms of having control over your own life.

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comment by Dagon · 2021-10-22T18:23:03.125Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I like the statement, even while fully disagreeing with it as a literal suggestion.  A currency must be fungible, divisible, and transferrable.  Emotional "investment" is none of these, even if it's more personally scarce and valuable than some amount of actual currency.

comment by EI · 2021-10-21T04:08:59.347Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The reason why the surveillance dudes fucked with my call to the insurance company is because they know just how much I thought about it before while consciously making the decision to not to check up on the status just to see how things would play out. When you put threats of good times with this type of dynamics, you can't help but not care anymore.

I don't think those guys were aware of what they were doing. They were probably just trying to play games with me given that they have information that you guys don't have. They are normal people bored of their jobs trying to do something that excite them. That's why you can't really trust an AI system to dumb fucks like them. Instead of punishing themselves for unnecessary interference, they punish me for speaking up about their bad behaviors. Sounds familiar?

When you are a piece of shit, everything you touch turns into shit too.

And then you see shit like this. Fucking idiots. They've investigated themselves and found no wrong doings. And then they go home and beat their wives and kids because they can't stand not having authority over people they feel they should have authority over. Seems like my dad got into computer security. He'll fit right in with these guys.