Uh, that pop-up is "unpleasant feelings". Pain, discomfort, bad taste/smell, etc. If you went outside and started eating dirt, your brain would pop-up with "Hey, this tastes yucky, you should stop"
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The really dangerous thing is when something feels rewarding in the short term, but wrecks your life in the long term.
Why can’t broccoli feel more rewarding
Cover it in olive oil and salt. bake at 400 for 20 minutes, and trick your brain into thinking its amazing
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Are you kidding? I can always want to eat more broccoli than is advisable. I have to like hold myself back.
For real though, you can "acquire" these tastes.
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Lol that's awesome someone actually made that into a patch
Man me as a 14 year old on original Xbox straight up feeling like I destroyed the world
Everyone remembers where they were the first time they severed the thread of prophecy.
Damn that's a good point.
I guess that was a right of passage for the time
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My 16 year old: "I can't wait until I can do whatever I want!"
Me: "I thought the same thing. Turns out it's not as fun as it sounds."
I respectfully disagree. I realize that everyone's experiences are different but I greatly prefer being an adult to being a child.
Being an adult got awesome once I developed basic self control
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There is a term for this, but I can't remember what it is.
It's a phenomenon where a person goes through their formative years in a given structure, where you are raised by your parents, go to school, and are given set goals for every year - do X and you'll get to Y. This goes all the way up to your early twenties if you go to university, possibly longer if you join a structured company with similar guardrails, or much longer when you join the armed forces and live in a regimented way.
Once people leave these guardrails, some really struggle with the freedom they are granted. No one has a goal to point you towards, no one cares if you fail, and ultimately your life has a degree of freedom you haven't experienced ever.
One thing we're terrible at as a society is either guiding people with no clear path, or supporting those that don't want a clear path and want to find one of their own. Some people really struggle with this, and the freedom of being able to do shit like overindulge on drugs/alcohol/food with no support or community support can ruin lives.
A lot of things are worth doing for the sake of challenging yourself, but then battling your own mind about if something is a wasted effort or not is the real war.
As a general rule, anything you have to repeatedly do you should master.
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A few years ago I worked as a telecoms engineer. The role itself was pretty free-roaming and a large part of your working day was unsupervised and allowed you to make your own decisions and your day to day achievements were pretty much all down to you and/or the guys you were working with.
Anyway, the company had a spell where they hired a lot of ex armed forces personnel into various engineering roles, many of whom had done long stints in the military. Pretty much every veteran I worked with was smart, hard working, organised and a joy to work with. With one caveat, most of them needed an 'order' to do a particular thing, or pushing into thinking for themselves. They had spent their entire working life in a structured, order based environment, that left them unprepared when they were given the freedom to think for themselves.
I can totally get how homelessness and addiction problems can beset people when the structure they have spent their whole lives within, is suddenly not there any longer.
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There are no guardrails in life
Except for, of course, any actual guardrails you encounter.
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Nah. Unless you have a severe condition like psychopathy or some other neuro divergent state, your brain is pretty consistent with giving you warnings. These take the form of "bad feelings" and second guessing. Most of us just choose to ignore them and then begin the mental gymnastics, altering the chemical pathways to justify and continue the behavior.
Does not necessarily apply to financial decisions because this is an artificial system with no basis in reality, brain is not wired to assess properly. Also why it's easy to con people so easily. No natural defenses.
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The pop up is called natural selection. Any of your distant ancestors who clicked “Yes” to eating dirt did not survive.
Sadly, we have been so good at protecting people from stupid, we need the popups again.
Never know if the dirt eaters won or not. They might've been up against shit eaters.
Ah, the two party system, dirt eaters vs shit eaters. But more parties does not equal no dirt and shit, sometimes it just becomes dirt, shit, manure, fecal matter and plain old sand.
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Picks up bleach.
What the fuck does that mean clippy?
Yes. I'm 40 and leaving ~800k if I die at work. Tell my blood brother and other brothers I love them. Insist they spend 20k on drugs at my funeral. Buy lots of cheap and/or electric motorcycles.
Thanks Mr Clippy
Ah, but have you considerd trauma? You might regret your choice for the rest of your life.
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I mean the taste of the dirt is kind of the warning?
"Broccoli is one of the worst things you can eat! It even tries to warn you with its horrible taste!"
"...I like broccoli."
The are you sure message is your parents and peers looking at you like you are stupid.
You want a Clippy for everyday life?
Honestly couldn't hurt.
I think this Clippy needs to make liberal use of the word "dumbass".
Looks like you're trying to eat dirt. Do you want help, dumbass?
You stupid idiot
You absolute donut
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Autonomy FTW
* Goes outside *
* Tries to fly *
I think I've been lied to on the internet...
The problem is you keep, too accurately, hitting the ground. You have to miss.
This guy's on point. You really have to throw yourself at the ground and miss. If you need a good counterexample, think of what happens when you drop a brick.
I mean that's what the wright brothers did, they went outside and just tried to fly until they could
Yeah but they started off by being Wright.
Jesse, what the hell are you talking about?
Windows users first time on linux be like
Thats what religion is supposed to do. If only it would stop at that....
Did this person not have a mama?
Breaking news: not all parents are good at parenting.
Footnote to news: An astonishing high number of parents should not have become parents
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