Life's Too Short To Waste Handbook

lxpk — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:57:43 -0400

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Life's Too Short To Waste

Life's Too Short To Waste

RiZeN — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:18:28 -0400

Time is a finite resource, and should be treated as if it was in danger of running out at all times. When you act with a lack of time waste, you get much more done. People often find it quite fun to be engrossed in some activity wholly. Regardless of the duration, when you are focused on something, your life seems to have purpose. Wasted time is wasted life. Give your life a purpose, do something!

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An interesting chat about "chronicide"

lxpk — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:24:19 -0500

Forrest Cameranesi:
heheh, I like this term "chronicide". Killing time.

LXPK:
yeah
time kills us
Chronicide is really homicide
I should add that There's no such thing as chronicide, only homicide. You don't kill time, it kills you.
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Forrest Cameranesi:
Though conversely (and very tangentially), nobody ever really dies of "old age". Some part of their body eventually fails, and that failure is what kills them. Heart disease is the #1 killer cause we've drastically reduced all other causes of death, so now most people get to live until their hearts just give out.
So if the body weren't flawed to begin with, we'd be immune to death-by-time.

LXPK:
Over a long enough timeline, your fatality rate approaches 100%

Forrest Cameranesi:
ok I guess there's that statistical point too

LXPK:
Even posthumans will have stellar event to worry about
Like supernovas
and our sun dying
We have a long way to go before we can breathe easy

Forrest Cameranesi:
heh it's funny, I remember reading somewhere that the maximum human lifespan, even given a world of perfect healthcare, no poverty, no crime, nothing, as perfect as we can imagine life here on Earth... is still something like 10,000 years, because in that time period the likelihood of you getting hit by a bus or accidentally inhaling a crumb at breakfast and choking to death approaches 100%
in other words the odds of going without a fatal accident in 10,000 years are effectively nil

LXPK:
that's where offsite backup is awesome
The future of survivability is bunker datacenters

Forrest Cameranesi:
heh, I like that

LXPK:
with nanofabs to reproduce your desired body upon spawning

Forrest Cameranesi:
when the real world becomes as manipulable as data, backups become everything
then again, I guess with genes it's already like that
the secret to life, for a gene, is making as many copies of yourself as you can, and spreading them out so they can't all die at once

LXPK:
Yeah
In the future, that will be much easier
Provided we survive
I'm very optimistic though
I think we're not a bunch of underachievers
Humanity's too good
The 21st century is going to be a century of freedom
We're going to win this thing

Forrest Cameranesi:
heh, you know it's funny, whenever I put down humanity in general, people jump on me about how we're the greatest species this world's ever seen and we've got so much potential...
...until I explain that that's why I'm so down on us all.
I'm disappointed.

LXPK:
we're slacking
But we're primed for redemption
We're like Prince Hal in Henry IV
"I know you all and will awhile uphold the unyoked humor of your idleness yet herein will I imitate the sun who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world that when he please again to be himself, being wanted he may be more wondered at by breaking through the foul and ugly mists of vapors that did seem to strangle him."
I'll skip the middle but the end,
"My reformation glittering oer my fault shall show more goodly and attract more eyes than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend to make offense a skill, redeeming time when men think least I will!"
That sums up my personal philosophy and my view of human nature
We're like Mohammed Ali vs George Foreman in Africa, taking hits till the final rebound punch

Forrest Cameranesi:
heh, that's how I arm wrestle. Just put up enough effort to stay in the game until the other guy's too tired to go on, then whomp him.

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Fight Club Human Sacrifice

lxpk — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:18:42 -0500

One of the most powerful scenes in Fight Club is this clip:

A church pastor telling the story from the movie very movingly and asking "Do you live a settled life? Are you settling just to be comfortable?"

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Life's Too Short To Waste

lxpk — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:01:10 -0500

If you're killing time, it's the other way around.

We'd be fooling ourselves if we believed that there was ever "nothing worth doing" or a bad time to do something cool. I like to skip wastes of time like commercials because I can never get those 30 seconds back. If I see a bad movie I walk out of the theatre. Why? Because I'll never get those 2 hours back. I avoid watching things that sound like a waste of time because I have a huge list of cool things I'd rather be doing.

Life's Too Short To Waste