#philosophy #mind #freedom #intelligence #wisdom #rationality #metaphysical # Freedom solved [[Maslow pyramid]] not worrying about money financial and intellectual freedom capacity to live in your perfect [[Environment design|environment]] Optionality >Were I asked for a one-sentence biography of Einstein, I would say, ‘He was the freest man I have ever known.’ >~ [[Abraham Pais - Subtle Is the Lord|Abraham Pais]] The closely related the effect of your actions are to the cause, the freer you are. That's why I believe that during your career, the more impact you have on your future (the less you are relying on [[Luck does not scale|luck]]), the more learning opportunities from [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Antifragility|shocks]]. If effects are tightly coupled to your actions, you are directly hit by the outcomes, good or bad. In other words, how related are your outputs to your inputs? >Independent-mindedness seems to be more a matter of nature than nurture. Which means if you pick the wrong type of work, you're going to be unhappy. If you're naturally independent-minded, you're going to find it frustrating to be a middle manager. And if you're naturally conventional-minded, you're going to be sailing into a headwind if you try to do original research. ~ [[Paul Graham - Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age|Paul Graham]] >When one wish is granted, you will beg for another. When it is not, you will either wait in hope, or curse out of spite. Dependency will rob you of your freedom. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life]] ## Acting beyond individuality - [[That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.]] - [[Effective Altruism]]  >La liberté n'induit pas l'égoïsme et il n'y a pas d'homme plus libre que celui qui agit parce qu'il pense ses actes justes. >~ [[Pierre Bottero]]     ![[d8603c05-02a3-4470-babd-9c2f4d85b865-0-1272337076.png]]   A true, good, just and ethical strong man, by Picasso ![[6b44cf77-c505-4451-95ca-fe3acc45d53f-0-802663615.png]] ![[14283bf0-85b0-4388-8a7b-3f1ee6139aa0-0-2017206808.png]] %% [[The learned necessarily holds higher ethics]] >La vraie liberté ne consiste pas à faire ce qu'on veut, mais ce qu'on doit. >~ [[Pierre Bottero]] ![[90413f20-a6eb-4e97-8c4f-85d8ae70997c-0-1538141282.png]] ## Truth is a pathless land ![[Truth is a Pathless Land]] >Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. >~ [[George Orwell]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-26 18.21.08 - Freedom, by Picasso.png]] ## Freedom is generalization, freedom is [[Philosophy/Rationality/Intelligence|intelligence]] >To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality. >~ [[Bruce Lee]] ## From scratch >What characterizes real speculators like Soros from the rest is that their activities are devoid of path dependence. They are totally free from their past actions. Every day is a clean slate. >~ [[Nassim Taleb|Taleb]] [[AI from scratch rather than based in human map of the territory]] ## Freedom becomes integrity >True freedom does not mean doing what we want, rather doing what we have to do >~ [[Pierre Bottero]] >Freedom does not induce egoism and there is no man freer than the one who acts because he thinks his actions are right >~ [[Pierre Bottero]] [[The wise man know what is good]] [[That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.]] ## Quotes >there can be nothing more dreadful than that the actions of a man should be subject to the will of another >~ [[Kant]] >Life is about early detection of the reversal point beyond which your own belongings (say, a house, country house, car, or business) start owning you. >~ [[Nassim Taleb]] >If you know, in the morning, what your day looks like with any precision, you are a little bit dead—the more precision, the more dead you are. >~ [[Nassim Taleb]] >If you do not undertake a [[Philosophy/Rationality/Risk|risk]] of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure. >~ [[Nassim Taleb]]