Being bad at liking stuff is not something to brag about. Relatedly, the paradox of hedonism is just a skill issue. As with most skill issues, it can be overcome through autism (see Lu Yu et al.).

People stop finding new favourite things (e.g. music) as they get older because they get rusty at finding new favourite things. If they just spent more time finding new favourite things, they wouldn't have so much trouble finding new favourite things.

In the future, you'll be able to carbon date people by seeing which social skills they've failed to develop, since this tells you how old they were during covid.

Epigrams are source code. Explanations are compiled binary.

Free career advice:

1. Find a genius and help them. Even if they're not a genius, realising that will save you a lot of time.

2. If you're stuck doing something you don't want to be doing, practice being great at it. Being great at things is a skill in itself, separate from whatever object-level thing you're great at.

3. All advice is a form of confession.

Fanfiction version of the Macy conferences where it's the exact same in every way but Henry Kissinger is there.

A meme from the future: "actually, being trans is retvrning to tradition, it's just being gay that's WEIRD"

henosis/theosis -> Chardin's Omega Point -> NGE fanta -> Silicon Valley transhumanists. Sad!