Meta-post: Why This Blog Exists
- Dhruve Dahiya
- Apr 3, 2023
- 28 min read
Updated: May 1, 2023
Just to get it out of the way, yes, I have used 'meta' correctly, and the post does reference itself in itself, it's an infinite recursive loop. It's a set of all sets that also contains itself. It's listed in the category of 'important' posts, and that post- this post- contains all other posts, including itself, so it's also like those beautiful things that we have named fractals that I like staring at because I like geometric shapes but let's keep that for my posts about Asperger's.
New to this post? Start here. (Let's see how many fall for it even after being warned)
This post lists all posts arranged by "importance"- subjective, so it's what posts I think are important relative to the rest that I feel but be separated from the rest, "information density" or "complexity" that is the information density or complexity of the ideas presented in the post, again a subjective and relative measure- because for me none of my posts are too dense and easy to read, but others have told me they're too dense and hard to read for the general reader, so I've arranged them according to my own idea or mental image of what my posts would be like to a general average neurotypical human reader.
You could just scroll down towards the end and see the categories, but I'd appreciate it if you read it all before scrolling down, because if you cannot, believe me, you'd not want to read my posts, as they're much more complex, dense and longer than this post, (not complex for me; I've been told by others that they are) especially those that fall under the category. So it could be like a trial, if you are able to read this one, maybe you could try reading the rest. But yes, try to read them, I'd like to heard from you if you do, because I have set very low expectations from readers of this post and even if you skim half of my posts, I'd like to hear (read) from you.
Then there is the measure of how interesting it is, which again depends on what I find interesting, and let me make it known from that start that I have some unconventional hobbies and obsessions that are rare, which is why it's hard for me to find like-minded people, which is why I am socially isolated for over three years and three consecutive months now, and why I have no interest in video games, watching movies, shows, socializing, and all day everyday I only read and write, work on my projects. But I'd be glad if anyone else finds my "interesting" posts interesting.
Or any post, for that matter, which is why I'm expanding to other media. YouTube, Instagram. I'm just trying to reach out to a wider audience for my ideas that I believe are worth spreading and personal experiences and thought processes and worldview that others might find interesting and would help generate awareness for autistic people and help society understand that we're humans too and deserve to live in an accommodating society that understands us and doesn't make us feel uncomfortable, or worse, deny this condition or act according to incorrect labels that popular media has propagated about autistic people.
I had been publishing around one post every two days on average until around 5 weeks ago, but then I started working on some more complex posts with more important ideas that are also more interesting, and I fell down the rabbit hole of perfectionism while trying to not just improve the posts to the point of perfection (doesn't exist) but also incorporating novel situations and new information I acquire from real world experiences (funny thing is I have even stopped acquiring new info from books since a few weeks now which is hard as I'm an avid reader and been a bookworm since as long as I can remember, but I needed to focus on writing, and I am also socially isolated- 3 years without gap, 4 consecutive months now and counting- and so as you can guess I'm also not in some environment that could give as many ideas as you'd guess when you read my posts, but my brain has been in overdrive and deeply analyzing every single observation just from my parents- my only source of social interaction in real life and my connection with real humans, everyone online might as well be bots or simulated personalities, if any person I interact with online is reading this and feels like I wasn't supposed to realize this, at least be happy to know that I believe you passed the Turing test for humans, though I'm a human too, probably, or so I'd like you to believe-)
anyway, you just got to see another reason why I'm not getting done- I tend to go off on tangents a lot; it's related to my Asperger's and I've always been trying to fit in and had started thinking there is something wrong with me, and even though I'm not relatively confident and expressive, all my social interaction is online and even there I don't talk much and express my real self too much- though those who know me and haven't ghosted me or called me insane if they themselves aren't already insane would like to disagree, but I politely disagree with their disagreement and it'll be clear when they read my newer posts that fall under the 'important' category what I'm talking about- and I'm now also working on being my self- it's complicated as the 'self' is constantly changing yet there are inclinations and values that are relatively immutable, permanent or constant (for now, till I get access to the adequate research facilities) throughout life but let's not get into that here-
and so I'm working on being myself in the sense that I do what makes me happy if it's not harming anyone else and depends on personal preferences independent of social conditioning, norms and any unreasonable irrational external influence that causes me a certain minimum amount of discomfort or suffering, and that's for when I decide that it's rational for me to try to fit in a little- in the sense that it maximizes the probability of my achieving a desired goal- but in social situations and other low-stake environments, I am going to be myself and completely unafraid of judgment and what others think. I'm going to be me on my blog, and the confused little weird skinny average-looking 19-year-old teenaged kid you'd see in real-life would be a different persona that has been forced to adapt to his social environment though he's still going to come off as 'eccentric' and 'robotic' (Words used by peers in the past to describe me; most popular nicknames include computer, robot, AI, Sheldon and Mark Zuckerberg; more in my post about Asperger's; yes I have high-functioning Autism also called Asperger's; no it's not a disability, and no I'm not a genius, I'm pretty stupid and dumb and lack common sense outside of the few topics I talk about in my posts.)-
Anyway. I did it again. And I can assure you this will happen again in my posts, a lot. And in real life I try to take into account subtle cues- micro expressions, body language, tone, eye gaze and eye contact, other stuff- in order to know if I'm annoying them and they're too polite to be honest and logical and direct, but in my blog- this is important- I myself request you to stop reading if at any point of time you feel like you're not learning anything new or not having fun, and spend your valuable time on something more stimulating, interesting or productive. It's my personal space and this is where I have come after years of no one listening or trying to understand what I have to share, and unfortunately I'm both extremely introverted and dislike too much social interaction yet have certain social needs and desires, and even though I'm grateful to have found some similar like-minded people online, they are very few (lower left end of the representation of single digits on the number line) yet as I said I myself feel uncomfortable being my real 'self' with almost all of them because I have understandably been conditioned to feel that way and I'm also unsure if they're just being polite but annoyed, so I try to keep it to a minimum (though for most people my minimum is still much more than their limits of sanity; see my post Random Out-of-Context Text Messages) but not on my blog.
I also realized today while consuming rice during lunch, how I felt like there aren't as many peas as I'd like, but then realized that there are a lot of peas, just concentrated into a very small area. High density per unit area. And my blog posts are similar. High information density per unit area. High complexity. I have been told by one person who it doesn't contain much stuff, seemingly incomprehensible, but I told them that it actually contains a bit too much- too many peas concentrated in one area such that it seems like there is no peas (more accurately, so much peas equally spread over the rice but maybe shredded or something so it's not visible and so a person is eating more peas than rice but doesn't realize there's any peas)
And so even though I try to explain as clearly in a simple language my thought processes and ideas using examples from real life experiences and daily observations and analogies with simpler disciplines, if something is not clear, please reach out and I'd be happy to have a conversation about anything I've written in my posts. I also need to try to control the information density else it might collapse into a black hole and wipe out humanity before AGI does and that's bad because then I won't get to complete my projects and learn the answer to my list of research questions and investigate those topics from my research interests (I have a post about my research interests too) -
and read all those books that I wish to read from my to-read list that is soon going to approach infinity (might even already have approached infinity, for all practical purposes, but let's not get into limits and infinitesimals and philosophy of mathematics, though if you are interested in those topics, let me know!), never mind me and humanity going out of existence.
(I use such analogies frequently throughout my posts to convey my ideas that would otherwise not make any sense to someone who is not me, and also because I simply enjoy extracting general abstractions from specific instances and find how different instances are connected, as they are always connected at some level of abstraction is my hypothesis, and in the future also I intend to find connections between seemingly unrelated fields and use methods of one to solve problems of another, as I like the idea of being a polymath and constantly learning new stuff, and tackling hard problems I'm passionate about solving using an interdisciplinary approach.)
Coming back to where we started from, and now you have a better idea though this is one very small reason and relatively rare with a relatively lower probability of occurring while I write, because most of it is me trying to make it more readable, explain my abstract general concepts with concrete real-world examples, analogies with simpler subjects and my own personal experiences whenever possible, but I am doing this too much, and I know about it (see my post Analysis Paralysis) but as I also know knowing a cognitive bias doesn't mean that you won't fall for it but that also isn't any excuse to not even try but then it also makes sense to take calculated risks where you are aware of the consequences and still do something that might be irrational for others but you accept the negative consequences- including the worst-case scenario and taking into account the opportunity costs- because you decide that the expected utility or potential benefits outweigh them and so it's rational for you to do so, but we also need to keep in mind that there is an intuitive element to it that's guided my emotions and I'm also good at rationalizing based on my intuitive preferences and subconscious desires but now I'm aware of it and it's a great ability to have (see my post Confessions) but I wish to help people and believe it's my moral duty and responsibility to help those less fortunate than me.
I have now written about this so the readers are aware that I have already spent a few weeks not polishing but just rearranging and expanding and explaining in greater details my own posts- it's all still raw stream of consciousness flow of thoughts writing style as if I'm having a conversation with you just talking from my mind and my previously acquired knowledge with very little research, so just playing with ideas, so please keep in mind I'm a 19-year-old kid playing with ideas and I'm not an expert so I'd like to be corrected by anyone who finds flaws in my ideas and any type of feedback.
So I'm publishing this now (funny that just to write this past I spent over 3 days, as opposed to some of my long dense posts with important ideas where I just write as a stream of thoughts expressing my ideas in the moment style writing, which is how I've written almost every one of my posts, but my recent ideas.. I've not even been trying to rephrase them to be more tactful as they might be misinterpreted, as I think I should have, but instead I'm doing something as good by just providing more examples and personal experiences and more analogies with other knowledge I've acquired or information I've acquired by observing the external observable events happening in society, so I think it's time to stop now) please realize I have spent enough time already and if it's still unreadable or dense I'm willing to talk to your personally if you care enough about the ideas to just send me a message I'd be more than happy to have a conversation and discuss your thoughts, comments or just explain my ideas in greater depth, but I'm not going to keep improving my posts because I think it's time to just go ahead and publish now and my other ongoing projects (and my sleep) is suffering because of it (I'm sleep deprived, I write all day, as I said I haven't read a book for 3 weeks! and my other projects HAH- trust me, you'll be grateful to be alive at the same time as me and I'm going to show everyone how we could create a great society where everyone is understood and happy and fulfilled and no one has to suffer due to external factors out of their direct control, even those who are too pessimistic and have turned into cynical misanthropes, believe me, I was going to go that route not too long ago, but now I have some brilliant practical realistic ideas by which it's possible, anything is possible, at least with regard to helping people who suffer, and allow them to live fulfilling lives, I have a plan, I have some great project ideas that have received external validation from reputed accomplished academics, and my career has just started...)
Important note: even though my posts refer to several topics, readings and research papers at times, you do not need any prior knowledge and I try my best to keep it all self-contained and explain every topic in great detail, starting from the abstract and then coming to specific instances or cases using real-life examples and real-world observations, analogies with simpler topics with lower complexity, and my own past personal experiences. But I would like you to keep this in mind at all while reading all my posts: I am just a 19 year old kid on a gap-year expressing my subjective opinions and personal preferences, and playing with ideas, trying to discover my own core values and beliefs, and I repeat this point several points throughout all my posts when relevant but I'd like to clarify it here from the start- I am not endorsing or imposing any of my beliefs (I believe that's immature, foolish and stupid) and I'm also not trying to change your mind (I don't know why so many smart people do that) but I am trying to express my opinions and ideas honestly, directly and logically, and I am always open to changing my mind in light of new convincing logical arguments or contradictory empirical evidence, and more than happy to converse with peope who think differently; to receive specific honest feedback and constructive criticism with how I could improve my writing or ideas and re-adjust my belief system to be more aligned with reality.
I'd like to have a chat with anyone open-minded enough who thinks that they would be receptive to someone whose worldview is different from theirs and who is able and willing to explain the reasoning behind their beliefs and express their thoughts, and I promise to try my best to listen and understand without any judgment, and have empathy, and I know I can do this because even in the past in some conversations I've had in which certain people understandably get emotional and heated, I always stay polite and calm even if it comes to abuses. And if I feel hurt, though it's hard to offend me, I would just let you know and remove myself from the conversation if required, but never ignore or keep my feelings secret. I like being honest, direct and logical, and I also try my best to be calm, polite and tactful, but I wish to make it understood that I'm probably human too and make mistakes, in which case I'd just like to be told how I'm wrong and how I can improve so I can consider and try to either explain any misunderstanding and clear and misconceptions or misinterpretations of any of my ideas or behaviour, or change my mind and admit my mistake and make sure to never repeat it again. I don't have any ego issues and I've admitted my mistakes multiple times in the past, and fortunately I know that we can never be certain due to the epistemic uncertainty inherent to all of knowledge, and so it's irrational to emotionally attach your ego or sense of 'self' to any one belief or idea, and I like keeping every idea at a distance and evaluating, analyzing and scrutinizing them with logic without committing to any of them and being aware of any biases or fallacies I might be prone to.
Please keep in mind that I'm just a confused teenager trying to make sense of this complex world and soon going to start university, and I'm just trying to talk about my ideas and in the process conenct with similar like-minded people who could join me on my journey to create a better society, 'better' being subjective I know but I explain how and why in my blog posts that fall under the 'important' category, but all my ideas are related to helping people who are less fortunate than me and at a relative disadvantage compared to others due to which they suffer due to accident of birth, blind luck or random chance.
I have some research questions and problems, and I wish to solve them my any means, because I cannot bear to live in a world and society where there are people whose lives are worse than death, and for anyone thinking I'm one of those escapist ideal utopia rose-colored glasses people who deny reality and talk about unrealistic unfeasible visions, I'm not, and I might even come off as a bit too realistic and pessimistic at times, but I am optimistic while trying to stay grounded in reality and suggesting practical implementable and feasible steps that we can take to create a better society, keeping in mind specific issues such as the diversity tradeoffs, pareto principle, speed of technological progress, optimal levels of suffering, sentience and consciousness, and other possible contingencies and possible hurdles which I discuss in detail in my posts. I know it's highly improbable and very unlikely that my theories are correct perfect solutions, which is why I requested you to keep an open-mind and critique and point out mistakes and flaws that I might have overlooked due to subjective bias as a result of my past personal experiences or simply the way my brain works, and I could then accordingly modify my plans and solution to be more realistic and have a higher chance or probability of succeeding, and slowly have a plan that has a realistic chance of being implemented and creating a better, safer, fairer and more accommodating society built around values such as kindness, compassion, empathy and love for all sentient beings.
Not blindly following emotions or intuition and scrutinizing them with logic and reason and depending on them only when reliable or when it’s rational- where I define rationality as increase probability of or make more likely to achieve your desired goals keeping in mind your values, preferences, desires and risk-taking ability. Helping less fortunate people who suffer due to being at a relative disadvantage due to accident of birth, blind luck or random chance; investigating all the external factors that influence decisions and compel people to act irrationally in ways that make them more likely to harm them or people around them; and to see how much is under our control and what is the ‘self’- genes, brain, society, and see if there is a self, what it is, and is not, deterministic implications on society and how to manipulate to create better society; allow everyone to live a fulfilling life according to their inclinations, predisposition, proclivities, as determined by their genes and environment, and ‘fix’ those who are inclined to gain happiness from hurting other sentient beings. it concerns social institutions that are now counterproductive to the goals they were initially established for and are now causing harm to humans, starting from the legal system. Starting with legal I will extend to all of them, and then eventually family and government and religion and journalism and science academia too, all in ways that could help us create a better, safer, peaceful, compassionate, humane, more egalitarian and accommodating society to allow everyone to live according to their inclinations and live in unity and harmony and have empathy for everyone and understand that everyone deserves to be loved.
I believe I'm qualified to talk about the topics I discuss because- especially for those who might be suspecting me because of my age and lack or credentials (19 year old on a gap-year)- I have high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome, due to which my worldview and thought processes are very different from the average person, and I'm not saying it's better or worse, it's just different, and I wish to understand the worldview of people who think differently, which is the vast majority of the population. I am at the last step of getting a patent publication, preprint publication, and submitting a novel research paper to Elsevier, working with several academics who encouraged me to submit my papers to a publication to build credibility and safeguard my ideas, and I myself thought it'd be a good idea so no one could steal them and accuse me of stealing their (my) ideas later. I'm also a permanent member of the WEF AI Youth Council of India, and I just got my IQ tested which has been roughly estimated to be 3 SDs above average, around 150, if you want numbers, but as I said, that's a rough estimate and I personally believe too high even taking into account my inferiority complex and self-doubt, so if you ask me, it's probably somewhere around 115, and at most 120.
But I'm soon going to get my scores- which I gave while I was already sleep-deprived, so it might be on a lower end. I might update this post when I receive the scores from WAIS IV, if I remember, else you could just ask if you care about that sort of thing, because I'm trying to maximize the probability of people taking my ideas seriously and at least listening to them without any regard for my age or credentials. I describe my experience with the test in my posts about Asperger's. For the above reasons, and several others I describe during the course of explaining my ideas, I believe that you should consider my ideas seriously even though I'm just a 19 year old kid who dropped out of university twice and never really got good grades in school. My ideas are also consistent with some old philosophers I read after I came up with those ideas, so it's not similar enough that anyone could accuse me of stealing and rephrasing, because it's motivated by my personal experiences and current tech and scientific progress that didn't exist back then, yet it's similar enough to give me confidence that I'm on the right track, because they're still being studied widely. If you want me to be more specific- Schopenhauer, Sartre, and Nietzsche. Check out my post Thus Spoke Zarathustra for an example.
Some people might think that I'm just using catchy clickbait words "unpopular", "unconventional", "radical", "novel" and "controversial" to get the attention of people, but you'll realize when you read my posts I mention several times how strongly I dislike journalists and science communicators who oversimplify and use sensationalist content in order to retain the attention of people rather than educate, and I never do this myself in any of my posts, even if it seems like I'm exaggerating or being overly dramatic, I am not, unless explicitly specified that I am, which is rare but still does occur a few times throughout my posts again not necessarily to make it more interesting for you- you might actually hate my twisted weird and eccentric sense of humour and maybe even quit reading my blog altogether if you're inclined that way- but because I like it that way and this is my blog and I've never been able to be myself around people so now I'll be myself here and won't have to worry about wasting people's time or annoying them like in read life. I actually request you to quit reading my posts any time you feel like it's not interesting or you're not learning anything, and spend your valuable limited time on activities that are more interesting or productive. I will not try to meet anyone's expectations while writing this blog, even though many people told me to make my dense posts more readable and I did because I realized it's actually a bit boring at times and a drag, especially if the reader doesn't have the information acquired from personal experiences that I have, so I try my best to express my thoughts and ideas as clearly as possible in very simple language, as simple as it can get and as my language skills permit without any significant information loss.
I never try to use complicated words to sound smart, as I believe that people who do so are stupid and it's counterproductive to whatever reason they are doing that for, and I write about this elsewhere but in brief, I would need to sometimes use slightly more complex vocabulary in order to convey ideas that cannot be- at least in my opinion, keeping in mind my cognitive limitations and linguistic ability- broken down into simpler language, just like you can't express complex mathematical quantum physics equations in any natural language, let alone English, without losing out on anything important. But I never use any specialized technical terminology for the simple reason that I myself don't know any such terminology as I've not studied any subject- even psychology- beyond the introductory university textbooks. So I try my best to keep it simple, but not oversimplifying. Another point to keep in mind is that if you don't understand something, it could be for the reason that 1) I'm not a native English speaker; English is not my native language and my primary mother tongue is a different language completely unrelated to English. Hindi, in case you're curious.
But I'm still better at English than Hindi even though most people understandably seem to be better at their primary language, but I just prefer English as it allows me to express my ideas more freely, openly and clearly, and because it's the language understood by most people who work in fields I'm interested in, and most research is done in that language. I'd be lying if I told you I'm not above-average at Hindi too, but when I do speak hindi it's a purer more theoretically correct form of ancient Hindi derived from Sanskrit, and not the modern Indian version full of slangs that I strongly dislike. I recently realized that I don't dislike the slangs just for the vulgar and indecent language that might be offensive to some, becase even though that's certainly one of the reasons and I have never used such slangs even in casual conversations, I'm relatively fine with the English counterparts and myself use them, though still very rarely and only with certain kinds of people I'm comfortable with. The real reason, I realized, is that I dislike the sound. And I came up with a hypothesis that it's related to Autism due to a very interesting insight between my taste in language, art, food, music and several other domains of my life which is a bit complicated to explain but I explain this in my posts about Asperger's.
I don't use ChatGPT to write my posts despite many people telling me to consider it. I tried it, and it's not as good. It's good at making stuff concise or eloquent or talking nonsense, but I can't conceive of any prompt by which you could give it ideas such as those I just described. I actually even tried using one of such ideas as input and asking it to write a fictional story, and looks like ChatGPT is too stupid and it's language skills are not that good at the moment. It is good at turning stuff into smart-sounding bullshit though. I don't do that, and as I repeatedly point out throughout my posts, I strongly dislike both clever-sounding cult leaders who use eloquent sophisticated needlessly complected words to convey simple ideas, and also science communicators who oversimplify using sensationalist clickbait content to maintain attention, not educate. I use simple language, but some ideas simply cannot be conveyed using common words used in daily casual conversations, just like complex quantum mechanics and other mathematical equations cannot be conveyed in any natural language without significant information loss, let alone English. To read more about my thoughts on ChatGPT and why I'm not using complex words unnecessarily, check out my posts The Diary of an Autistic Kid and Friendship.
Second reason the you don't understand my ideas could be that it's something involving internal subjective mental states or qualia, and in such a case, it won't be my linguistic ability but the fact that we don't currently have the told to even measure such phenomena using tech and mathematics, let alone English. Still, once again, I try to the best of my abilities and believe that it's at least good enough to give you the general idea or impression of what I'm trying to convey. Also, as you might already have noticed, I tend to go off-tangent a lot.
And it's going to happen and I'm not going to do anything differently to 'fix' it, as I already care too much in social interactions, which by the way is now completely online with very few people as I'm socially isolated now (more in the Asperger's post; in short, I was forced to isolate for two years due to covid, and since then it's been self imposed, and my only purpose to bring this up here is to help you form your own judgment about whether or not my ideas are worth paying any attention to, and convince you that I might have a different worldview due to being different in ways that most people are not, and have some unconventional ideas and a novel worldview that might have some merit and is worth trying to understand and empathize with)
But in my post I'm going to write whatever I feel like writing and as I said earlier, you could simply pause or stop according to your preferences as you wish. I am definitely going to consider seriously if anyone is kind enough to provide me with honest feedback and constructive criticism about my ideas or writing, but there's a limit after which I refuse to conform, but I like to think I'm open-minded enough such that the limit is probably much higher than what you'd probably imagine from reading this, so please feel free to share any and all comments you have, and I will definitely read them and try to understand them. Not necessarily implement them, but if I don't then I'm going to explain why and not just ignore you, and I promise I'll try to listen and understand so at best we can learn something new and I could update my belief system to be more in line with reality is required, and at the very least we could agree to disagree and learn something about how other people think and get exposure to a different worldview.
I'm not going to try to please by thinking about what they would expect from me, because I can never please everyone, and I've already given myself enough mental agony and stress by caring too much and pretending all the time in the not too distant past, thinking there's something wrong with me and everyone is correct. I still don't think I'm correct, I think I'm different, and I respect everyone else's beliefs, opinion and way of thinking and living, and expect the same from you, unless you have any ideas to share and comments, honest feedback or constructive criticism, in which case I'd be happy to have an open discussion without judgment. I never think, and I request you to never get that impression from my writings, that my worldview is in any way superior to yours. I never even try to change your mind even when it's a strong belief for a cause. I simply share my worldview, and question yours in order to better understand your own worldview, and would like for someone equally open-minded and logical to express the reasoning behind their worldview and point out the flaws in mine. I only question because I'm curious and wish to learn more about you and have empathy for people who think differently, which is the vast majority of neurotypical people. I absolutely do not need to do this, as it would be in my best self interests to do, and I'd be much more content by keeping to myself and never trying to understand others and simply go along with them and work on my interests in the shadows my stay as inconspicuous as I have always been, as it's my nature being extremely introverted and now I have many very good reasons to do exactly that and give up every single project if mine that involves helping those who suffer and those who are less fortunate than me, but I will not. I'm telling you this in case anyone has the wrong ideas such as me trying to get popular or famous or whatever, because I let me make it clear that I don't give a flying flamingo for such superficial social constructs with no basis in objective reality, if it even exists, and I believe that all morals and values are arbitrary and open to interpretation, dependent on subjective preferences and subconscious desires. And with my logical and linguistic ability and power of rationalization, I can sleep peacefully knowing there is an innocent sentient being suffering greatly who could be helped, and I would seriously have no moral compunctions doing so, it would actually be pretty nice.
But for reasons I mentioned above, I believe I must use my unique fortunate abilities and position to help those who are in a less fortunate situation by facing the flaws I perceive in society and the way people think and behave. Hell, I don't even care about neuroscientific constructs such as time and reality which are clearly so subjective and arbitrary dependent on how you frame them, and I'm not getting better every single day in internalizing such concepts and behaving in a way in my real-life that is consistent with such beliefs. So, not just idle armchair philosophy that ends when I act in the real world, but I'm actually living it, and I'm never going to be held back by irrational illogical societal norms and social constructs, so you can be damn sure when I say that I'm going to achieve my goals, whatever they are, and fortunately for most of humanity my own morals are in some important ways aligned with the prevalent ethical code, though it does deviate in significant ways I shall describe in my blog posts, but my main goal in very brief is to help those who suffer due to being less fortunate and at a relative disadvantage due to accident of birth, random chance or blind luck. Coming back to where I went off-tangent and never really returned till now, I was saying that if you think I'm just using clickbait words to attract readership, check out the edit in my post Logical Reasons to be Ethical for an extremely brief and concise version of all my unpopular opinions and unconventional ideas; all perfectly logical and aligned with my values of kindness, compassion and empathy, but nonetheless unpopular and radical, in some ways maybe controversial, if you misinterpret them which I sincerely hope you don't and just send me a message so I can make my ideas more clear and make you understand what I actually mean and understand what you think.
So yeah, if you read that summary of my upcoming projects, you'll realize that it's going to be a lot of fun and it's a great time to be alive at the same time as me, and we could not just create a better society (better is subjective and that overused meaningless cliché doesn't make any sense) but also have lots of fun with my crazy ideas. if I decide to keep at it and don't just quit human society and go become an isolated hermit in the middle of nowhere, or if by some accident I'm not alive anymore, which is why I'm overworking myself writing all posts so I can at least make them public and then live in peace, or not; I'll try, depends on my mood LOL so funny if you read my posts about overusing logic and scrutinizing your intuitive thoughts. But here's a harsh fact: your logic and guided by your emotions. Go figure, it cause me great mental suffering and a huge shock I've still not quite recovered from when I realized that. Think about that more deeply, or maybe don't. Yes, don't, if you wish to preserve your sanity, but if that's the case, you should also probably not read my blog posts. I'm serious- if you are someone who is easily swayed by convincing logical arguments and rhetoric, and who can't hold several contradictory equally appealing ideas or beliefs in their mind and evaluate them with cold logic without attaching their emotions, ego or sense of 'self' to any of them, then train yourself in critical thinking, cognitive biases, rationality, logic and reasoning; Or just stop reading my blog, I'm saying this with your best interests in mind, because it could lead to a lot of trouble I don't wish to be blamed for, as I'm making it clear right now and I won't accept any responsibility for any of your irrational actions that might arise from a misinterpretation of my ideas without you asking me for clarification.
Also, there is some dark stuff in my posts that might sound like I'm telling you to deceive or act dishonestly, but I want you to keep in mind that honest is one of my core values, and anything that's related to deception is for you to detect such people and avoid them- or if you're inclined that way and are confident in your abilities, stop them from doing this to other people and if possible even beat them at their own game, because you won't be able to guard yourself or other gullible people who might fall for it unless you're aware of such manipulation, influence, persuasion tactics, subtle behavioural, psychological and linguistic tools that are used by people with malicious intent that could harm you or others, so you can detect it when it's being used on you or your close ones.
PS: I have included full text links in my posts because 1) I'm too lazy, 2) too busy and don't have the time due to some relatively important projects (yes, both lazy and busy at the same time) and 3) I wish to make sure that you have the peace of mind that I'm not going to rick-roll you or link you to some illegal website hidden in the corner of the dark web (no guarantees; though I don't need to resort to such stupid tactics to spy on you or collect your data; I already have- never mind.) The last one could just be me rationalizing again based on my intuitive preferences, a dangerous and powerful cognitive bias I'm going to explain and refer to throughout my posts, among other things.
Also, I realize I didn't really answer the question posed in the title, didn't explain exactly "why this blog exists", but that's because I didn't want to make the meta-post too long, but I'll go into greater detail into what exactly motivated me to start this blog in one of my future posts. Friendly Reminder: please stop reading any post if you feel like you've been trying to understand but it's too boring, incomprehensible, or whatever; if you feel like you're not learning anything new or not having fun, please spend your valuable time on something more productive or enjoyable. Enjoy!
High Information Density, Relatively More Important, Long (random order)
Mid Complexity, Important, Medium Length
Low Complexity, More Funny and Light-hearted than Serious
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