Dface Learning Plan
Hi
Dface
Country?
Age? I don't care exactly. I'm guessing early 20s. If you were 30 or 40 I'd need to change my mental model of you.
What did you study in college and how far did you get before quitting? Why'd you quit?
What FI related books have you read?
How'd you find FI and why'd you get involved?
Do you know much about CR, Oism, TOC, or Austrian economics? Do some of those interest you more or less?
Do you want to be an expert philosopher 10 years from now? Do you want to one day make money doing philosophy? Or do you just wanna learn some useful stuff to improve your life and help you do other stuff better?
Dface
Country?
Age? I don't care exactly. I'm guessing early 20s. If you were 30 or 40 I'd need to change my mental model of you.
What did you study in college and how far did you get before quitting? Why'd you quit?
What FI related books have you read?
How'd you find FI and why'd you get involved?
Do you know much about CR, Oism, TOC, or Austrian economics? Do some of those interest you more or less?
Do you want to be an expert philosopher 10 years from now? Do you want to one day make money doing philosophy? Or do you just wanna learn some useful stuff to improve your life and help you do other stuff better?
I didn't feel like I was actually learning. I hate the professors and the grade system there. I don't think it reflects actual learning and effort put into the class so I quit.
I thought I understood what it said, but I learned there's so much going in the background of these books that I had to miss like 90% of what was said.
Lot of parts in BOI didn't make sense to me so I kept looking for sources that made it easier. I couldn't find any really until I read on the acknowledgements that you had a lot to do with the book.
Making money off that sounds cool.
I want to take lessons from FI to improve my life, but I also want to contribute anything if I get far enough.
what was the goal? be a doctor? scientist?
are you in a bunch of debt now from student loans?
do you read much? have you read many books in your life? is it easy or hard for you to read a book if the ideas in the book aren't very hard, like reading a sci-fi novel?
do you think you have a reasonable understanding of how you spend your time? and much control over how you use your time? or no?
Yes 50% work 45% video games and 5% FI learning.
If I want to do a big project that isnt gaming then I usually fail and not have much control.
why not more time on FI?
maybe reading more books would be a good thing for you to work on. you could try some fun books like Heinlein novels to replace some video game time. you can learn some stuff without reading many books, but enjoying reading and being good at it is basically a necessary part of being a great philosopher.
do you know anything about anti-aging research and SENS? i think that stuff is rly important. and u already did some study related to it. have you read the book Ending Aging? maybe that'd be good to look into if you haven't and see if it inspires you. not sure how hard for you it'd be. it's written for the public not scientists but has a fair amount of biology stuff in it (i didn't understand everything). i'm not really sure how you get involved with that field or get hired tho. i don't know what degrees they require for what, what different paths exist to get involved, how many ppl get rejected from these kinda jobs, etc.
PS it'd be easier to read if you used the quote formatting for the stuff i said. there's a button next to the two T's.
on the website on my mac i'm seeing the quote button.
if you need, you could use bold for quotes and it'd look decent.
I remember one of your streams where you read an SENS paper. Working there doesn't seem so promising
for posting here, if you get stuck say something about what you're getting stuck on and why and ask for help.
sound good?
Should I be concerned about tracking anything when I read? Like finishing a certain amount of pages
> Recent books are risky. Too many are awful. General rule of thumb is read books from the 1900’s, especially after WWII.
I don't understand the approximate date range of books that is being recommended here. In particular, I don't understand how the text ", especially after WWII" affects the meaning of the final sentence. Does anyone think that it might be helpful for me to analyze that sentence grammatically?
This sentence has the form: General rule of thumb is X. I will first analyze the X text as if it were a stand-alone sentence. Then I will analyze the entire sentence.
Sentence #1: Read books from the 1900’s, especially after WWII.
1. Verb: "Read" (infinitive, imperative mood)
2. Subject: you (implied)
3. Object: "books"
4. Modifiers:
Sentence #2: General rule of thumb is read books from the 1900’s, especially after WWII.
The intro text "General rule of thumb is ..." indicates that the text which follows is a recommendation.
Conclusions: It is recommended that books from the 1900s be read. Emphasis is given to books from the 1900s that are from after WWII.