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Erik Torenberg
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If your life goal was to improve human coordination, how would you go about it?

e.g of things you might focus on:

- ISAs (align economic incentives)
- Charter Cities (enable "exit" & experimentation)
- NVC (improve our language)
- Religion (unify global narrative/consciousness)
Other ideas:

- “upgrading the OS” h/t @tiffany_ho
- scaling trauma therapy, h/t @utotranslucence
- social systems games, h/t ^^
- Prediction markets
- Improving the brain-computer interface
- Cooperative corporations, h/t @daveboothy
- Change & standardize laws
Lots of ideas in the thread are good-- the Q is just how to rank order them?
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Erik Torenberg
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Here's a take:

1/ Build an unfair advantage that compounds over time (e.g. Specific skills/knowledge)

Compound over time means that the more you put in, the better you get, increasing your defensibility.

It also means that it looks impressive now + will look impressive later.
How do you know your unfair advantage?

Ask others: What’s something that’s easy for you to do but hard for others?

AND very difficult for people to reverse engineer?

[more thoughts: ]
Build your professional life around obtaining an unfair advantage.

The Q to ask when evaluating career decisions:

What can you do, today, that makes it easier for you to have the career opportunities + resources you desire, tomorrow, in a way that compounds and is defensible?
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Erik Torenberg
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What is the best example you've come across -- whether in nature, narrative, or something else -- to describe #3: how we are more interconnected than we think?

Here's an example below:
1/ "While wandering around Montgomery Woods, we happened upon a solitary tree standing in a clearing, covered in bright green moss & bathed in light.

It felt special, and I started thinking about what circumstances led to this wonderful scene that we found ourselves in.
2/ On the surface, it seemed random: what are the chances of a tree getting totally covered in moss in this beautiful forest and getting bathed in light just as we arrived? And then I thought about what could make an opening in the forest canopy:
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Erik Torenberg
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1/Quick summary of some of the ideas from "Why Buddhism is True" by @robertwrighter — go read the book for the real thing!

***

Evolution did not design us to see the world clearly, it designed us to do whatever we needed to do to get our genes into the next generation.
2/ Feelings were designed to get genes in the next generation, but doesn’t that mean they were designed to make us see the world clearly or bring us happiness.

We don’t see the world clearly— this is why we suffer, and why we make others suffer.
3/ Evolutionary psychology is a diagnosis, buddhism diagnosed it along time ago— it also also offers prescription.

Meditation and in particular buddhism meditation is very well equipped to address that problem.
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