[FRIAM] more evopsych

[glen]

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/04/reputation-why-do-we-care-so-much-about-what-other-people-think-of-us/

Not as toxic as Jordan Peterson, but still insidious. I regret reading it. I'll never get that time back. So why post it here and bait some other poor soul into wasting their time as well? I think because I don't have my own defense. I keep getting suckered into this stuff. Why? What practical things do you do to prevent yourself from reading trash like this? I can't help but wonder what those of you who enjoy *chatting* with LLMs (chatting is very different from something like declarative programming) might opine.

Also, I used to enjoy the mere act of reading. I literally did not care what the words meant. I enjoyed reading an article in the journal Ethics just as much as, say, a long novel by Michael Moorcock. But once I started having to read as part of my job, it grew less and less fun. Now I don't enjoy reading at all, despite doing it all day every day. But my decision support system for choosing *what* to read is very broken.

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glen