[ffuxlpff]

The most important thing is not to have a purpose. Machines will always outdo you in optimizing for a goal function.

Don't follow rules and if you really need to, make your own and never tell them to anyone. Keep people guessing and change your mind often. Never ask opinions. They are useless and if you never ask people think you know better.

What you know you think and feel are not what you think and feel but dead remnants of your past thoughts and hunches. You have no personality but an ever evolving process that changes instantly to fill the areas you think are not you or your interest.

[esperent]

> make your own and never tell them to anyone. Keep people guessing and change your mind often. Never ask opinions. They are useless and if you never ask people think you know better.

What an incredibly lonely and antagonist life philosophy.

[atoav]

Not only lonely, this feels downright anxiety-driven.

A secure person who has their shit together knows that some people do in fact have valuable opinions and they won't be afraid to ask in public. And they know that too: two thirds of their HN submissions are questions for advice after all.

So this isn't about actual value of opinions, this is about a certain fright of how you appear to others and strategies to control that.

[Nevermark]

I would describe this as giving up on any serious agency, and retreating into a game of time killing tactics oriented around other people's confused reactions.

A way to offload the challenging search for purpose, to a shallow controllable process, consistent with the described disillusionment.

But people are idiosyncratic. Maybe for someone, a life of inscrutable eccentric rebellion against the Gods of practical reality, might actually be deeply meaningful to them - even if they don't admit it.

There are people who are genuinely happy doing the same thing every day. Every day. That is just as strange to me!

[ahf8Aithaex7Nai]

You don't seem to realize that you are undermining what you have written by sharing it with us here. That gives me hope for you. Of course, you can counter my objection by leaving it open in retrospect whether the text was meant seriously or not. Mind ninja! Always one step ahead! In any case, you won't be able to live a good life as a living gradient in a game-theoretical hell, denying your own goal orientation but strangely still interacting strategically with the world.

[pprotas]

But why? What value does living like this add to your life?

[wiseowise]

Jesus Christ, was this written by LLM trained on 69 laws of power something or some other psychopath bullshit aimed at angsty coming of age?