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First, how did yesterday go?
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NEW THING TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THE DAILY UPDATES
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Do you even want friends? Do you think you have anything to offer in a friendship? Do you plan to attract a female to you so that you can procreate one day? Any plans to move out of your parents?
Well, let me start in reverse order. Of course I want to move out, I want to move downtown immediately for a number of reasons. The amount of money I would want to live the lifestyle I want is around 80k/yr. Since money is relatively tight, I just think it is a good idea to work on myself (poker and health) only until say, next winter, and just try to cope with everything else. That way I can be in that environment comfortably without stressing out about money too much and without staying in too much (I would like to go out 5+ days a week.)
The goal of sex is sex, not procreation. In the short term, I think presenting yourself as a well off, non judgmental guy goes a lot of places, or atleast has for me. I think there is a great fallacy among many people that women don't enjoy sex, they do -- a corollary is that you don't have to excessively seek out women, you just have to be more choosable. (Let them choose you, bro.)
In the long term, the kind of woman (or friend) I am interested in is likely to have a good career: eg. did law school, med school, or degrees in math, linguistics, biotechnology, neuroscience, quantum-anything, or has a career in finance, any tech company, etc. Goes to bars often, dance class / yoga, deep interest in philosophy, political issues, maybe travels often, hell even game design.
In terms of population density, it's kind of a small percentage, and the problem is they basically all live downtown. So I'm never going to run into them at the bar, patio, friends of friends, gym, dance class, grocery, etc. (You end up running into the same people, it's a relatively small world.) So part of the problem is I don't put myself in a position to meet the kind of people I want to talk to more often. When I went to MIT and lived near campus, I would meet more people I would want to talk to in a week than I meet here in a couple months, so I know it exists.
Do I even want friends? This is a very tough question that I haven't actually fully resolved. I hope it will just naturally come about when I live downtown. Right now, 90 something percent of my friends are women, and even though I am very feminist, I'm pretty sure I somewhat view most women as sexual objects because I can't develop any other platonic interest in them (or in most people I meet in general.) That's not of some deficiency of mine, but that is essentially my fault that I haven't improved myself to a certain level and put myself in a position to meet the kind of people (with mutual interests) where platonic interest would more spontaneously emerge.
If you view friendship as a mutual and voluntary exchange, it stands to reason about how the other party can be useful to you. When I lived in China I had like 200 people on my phone or something, and I could call them up and maybe they would come out, and maybe they would pay too. But if I ever left China, or even the city, few would try to continue talking to me. Are those people my friends, or do they just like partying? When viewed through this scope, it is unclear that I should even want friends in terms of a commitment type of viewpoint. Maybe it's better to just be like those partygoers and focus much more on the present. If eg. the entire purpose of (that) friendship is to party, then why the extra baggage? Same goes for sexual relations.
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The wildcard winner of yesterday's contest was eh777. He guessed AT and so did one other person. Since they both had a similar answer I used random.org to choose the winner.
Unfortunately the contest will not be on for now, but I plan to have a long term daily contest very soon.
The goal of the contest is to promote long term viewership. By this metric the contest is probably very successful, I went from 5k views a day to 10k views a day.
However, there is much to be said about keeping the thread clean.
Perhaps you can
help suggest how I can structure such a contest, I am still thinking about it. Sorry guys for the delay.