Free Will Exists! Does it..? People insisting on “free will” are selling you something. Hear me out… Free-will advocates either want to flatter your decision-making skills before they lead you on to buy what they sell (and make you think it was your “free” decision), or they insinuate that their relative success (compared to your failures) is 100% a product of their own hard work, without crediting external parameters. These are the toxic motivator online success gurus with…
The Hell Of Endless Aspiration: When Motivation Backfires Let’s face it: there is no cure for psychological trauma. All the humiliation, indignity, abuse, shame, fear and guilt that deeply scarred your past cannot be fixed, no matter how many appointments you book with your therapist. The only way to address trauma is to make your life experience so grand that your trauma becomes small by comparison. You don’t fix your trauma; you outgrow it by growing yourself. This is why…
My religion In my **case for the simulation theory**, I explain how the emergence of a universe out of nothing, and the existence of a god from nothing, seem equally plausible. I show the weaknesses of the evolution theory, but also, the implausibility of a benevolent deity governing our purpose through love and consideration. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-case-for-the-simulation-theory If indeed this plane of existence has a purpose, this purpose is not for us; it’s…
The Invisible Hand of Incentive: Free Markets vs. Government Intervention The ‘invisible hand’ (coined by Adam Smith in the first book in economics ‘The wealth of nations’) is an allegory illustrating incentive as the greatest predictor of human behavior. Voluntary interactions between free individuals competing for value are governed by the incentive to offer value before receiving value. Competition optimises this process so that both parties in any transaction get the…
Should there be limits on capitalism or should the free market prevail? (Quora question) Loaded question. Here me out: What is ‘capitalism’ and what is ‘free market’? ‘Capitalism’ is a loaded term used by Marx, who was not an economist and had never worked a day in his life to demonize business owners. I decline to use this loaded term. Free markets means rights to property and self-ownership, the two things that slaves were not allowed to have. There is no moral argument…
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