I was just wondering what your goals are as individuals (short term and long term) and how they've been affected by the Covid-19 quarantine. Any answers would be appreciated, thanks.

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Haven’t you felt like; if you only met the right partner, sustaining a deep and meaningful conversation you would be there for almost 24Hrs just exchanging interesting topics. You would have company with them with chai tea, or anything favorite, it would be just so freaking awesome all the ideas of activities or places to go, but it hard when your days are just loneliness most of the time. Any thoughts?

I was thinking about this question, so I read Article I, which didn't directly specify person but detailed Representative. When it did say "No person shall be elected . . ." But AI is not a person, so the part of the clause doesn't apply.

Is there a place in the Constitution that makes this act unconstitutional?

27/F PMHNP telepsych single person business - having a hard time with my INTJ fears and actually starting a podcast and posting consistently on my blog. I am looking for topics and questions to cover related to mental health, depression, psychiatry, telehealth, medication, nursing, etc. Any help is immensely appreciated!

Hi there! I don't know if you, the reader of this sub, have a so-called commonplace book, or even know what one is. Anyway, I think this exposition about this topic and about how I decided to join the fashion is worth to be on a subreddit that is supposedly a think tank: because, despite given the fact that we are here to discuss ideas, I find it totally coherent to share what I think is a very important venue for someone who likes to think out of the box and, you know, do think tank stuff, to mature their ocasional toughts/inspirations/interpretations of other ideas, and who knows, then share their now-more-developed models and make a difference.

First off, since I'm lazy, I'm gonna put the wikipedia definition here for you. Anyway, it's basically a book in which you write (almost) every interesting thing that comes to your mind or that you view somewhere, often provided you have an impression that there's something in there that has some more potential, but you usually don't really know what. More, even: the fact that you stuff it all in one place can encourage you to intersect some of the concepts in ways you never before tought possible, giving rise to the phenomenon of serendipity.

This is an habit that many famous people have/had, like Bill Gates and many philosophers, blah blah, view on wikipedia or do a google search, all that, and yeah, you get the gist of it. But think: many of these examples may have very well not achieved what they achieved if they hadn't registered some of their occasional spurs of inspiration.

So, let's reformulate: why do I think it's relevant to post this here? Simple: we are here to discuss, and to think. And as INTJs, mainly to strategize. Complementing our latent ideological and entrepeneurial spirits with everything we see, by accident or not, and even with online discussions like the ones on this sub, and keeping it all with us may very well serve as just the necessary boost for a more active participation in these domains. And maybe, eventually, we will see a discussion here that may have been motivated by this habit...

So what are you waiting for? If you still don't have a commonplace book, do like I did this Monday: when I stopped complaining about lack of time and procrastinating on my year-old purpose, and actually just grabbed a random pen and a random A5 notebook and just began it. Who cares: organization is not a requirement here; just keep some basic logic in it, and make it, not solid, but fluid! Just do it!

TL;DR: Commonplace books are good. (sorry, I'm awful at summarizing stuff)

What if we made huge sealed domes filled with pure C02 and planted trees within them.

We'd gain 02 which is useful for more than breathing. Yes the trees would take of volume, but not as much as co2 does at room temp. Just keep the wood from bacteria/fungus and it will be stable for long enough to figure out what to do with it.

IBM is in the process of commercializing their AI platform, Watson. It won quiz shows against humans. (Deep blue beat Kasparov at chess)

Does this mean that we are now on the verge of strong AI? (Particularly the self improving ones)

What are your thoughts and predictions about the impending singularity? Is it gonna be Friendly AI or Human extinction?

How would we win the war against the machines? (Obviously blocking out the sun won't work.... it didn't in the matrix)

Warning: These are not short reads. If you have the time, I think you'll find them worthwhile.

• Part 1: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

• Part 2: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

I've been to the /r/ubi but I want to see some INTJs come up with a feasible economic plan informed by existing financial data.

You input your MB type and machine learning algorithms determine what type you'd be in other personality typology systems. You can also determine what character you'd be from a TV show a la those Facebook quizzes that tell you what ninja turtle you are.

The data is gathered by building a database of "persona groups", randomly pairing ones from dissimilar groups, and voting on whether that pair will be similar.

It's hard to describe but I should have a rough prototype up this weekend.

The point? Entertainment. I personally like taking those Facebook quizzes and a lot of other people clearly do too. Suggestions?

How connected are these three subjects and does one play a more vital role over the other. Should all be weighted evenly?

How important is Lazze-faire policy and what are its shortcomings?

I've been keeping the thought experiment strictly on the U.S. economy but the world economy is a whole other conundrum.

In response to this. Here is my favourite blog, and it's about working smarter not harder.

Please share similar resources, thoughts etc.

Democracy has been utterly corrupted into a feel-good word used by politicians to justify whatever bullshit agenda they're pushing at the time, but it actually means rule by people. It means that every citizen is for all intents and purposes a member of congress. Anyone can propose legislation and everyone can vote on it.

I personally think it's ideal, despite the intrinsic problems. People are stupid, that's true. But they're also selfish. They will make decisions that benefit them...given enough time to learn from their mistakes. It's that initial couple of decades that would be horrible and almost definitely worse than the status quo. However, after we collectively learn to wield that power, I believe it'll rapidly put us on the path to utopia. The best part? Implementing this doesn't require a violent revolution (like so many seem to be desiring these days). We can just elect representatives who vow to use one of these democracy 2.0 systems to make their decisions. They can gradually change the laws and eventually the people can be in control.

Let me get more specific into the kind of democracy I want to see: liquid democracy. While every citizen gets a vote, the vast majority of people are wholly disinterested in politics. Liquid democracy let's you delegate your "voting power" to another individual, effectively yielding a pseudo-republic. This solves the "what if I don't want to participate?" problem in a single blow.

I also think it should all be online. What if someone "hacks the vote"? It would be practically impossible if the vote database was stored in the blockchain protocol, like bitcoin. Trust me, if it was possible to hack the blockchain at least one person would have done it by now. For some reason only Australians seem to be interested in this forward thinking idea. Blockchain is the future, but the code is so complex, and thus far relatively unprofitable, that there isn't much incentive for people to gain skill with it.

I really like DemocracyOS and Democracy Earth but there doesn't seem to be much support for really any of this at this time. Whenever I bring up this idea with anyone, anywhere, it seems that people are so afraid of their neighbors that they're willing to let people like Trump rule over them rather than rule themselves.

Remember, if you think democracy is "tyranny of the majority" the only logical alternative is "tyranny of the minority". I'll take tyranny of the majority any day. It's not perfect, but neither is the present system. Do not succumb to the nirvana fallacy.

I've had the same qualms with /r/intj for years and this thread is mainly to suck your e-peen as thanks. Fucking relationship bullshit needs it's own sub, although even the perfectly appropriate DAE crap gets on my nerves just as bad. Furthermore, I feel like this sub is less likely to attract non-INTJs/poseur-INTJs.

I hope it proves successful.

• Gather data on social media vectors to populate an RPG database

• Get users to "attack" each other through this system and strive for domination a la agar.io

Let's say #Trump is the meme/hashtag you selected to use for an attack. This program would find all the tweets containing the #Trump meme and give you an ATK rating, a DEF rating, and a SPD rating. ATK is derived from the average number of followers of the posters of all tweets containing the #Trump meme, so if people with a lot of clout are using this meme frequently it will have a higher ATK. DEF is derived from the average favorite count of every tweet containing the #Trump meme, so if a lot of people are favoriting tweets containing this meme it will have a higher DEF. SPD is derived from the average number of retweets of tweets containing the #Trump meme, so if a lot of people are retweeting tweets containing this meme it will have a higher SPD.

These meme/hashtags will essentially be the usernames in the game world. You can attack the #Trump meme with the #Kanye2020 meme or the #HappyNewYear meme or whatever else you want so long as it's a hashtag used in at least one tweet. If you want your meme to be dominant you can encourage people to actually use social media, or you can strategically aim and use attacks on memes you think you'd be able to beat.

How exactly does combat work? I'm super-open to ideas. Right now I'm thinking a grid system where you try to make your meme the dominant "territory". Imagine a grid full of squares each containing a different meme with a text-entry bar at the bottom to type in the meme you wish to use. First you type in what meme you want to use, then you click on an enemy territory, then you select an attack. Attacks will essentially be different combinations of your meme stats vs. different combinations of the enemy meme stats. For instance: the "spam" attack would be your SPD x 2 vs. your enemy ATK x 2, the "mock" attack would be your (ATK+DEF)/SPD vs. their (ATK+SPD)/DEF, etc. If you win you get their territory. If they win, they get your territory. Maybe instead of gaining the entire territory at once you'd have to execute attacks on a grid unit by grid unit basis. It's obviously also possible (and probably more fun) to use these stats in some sort of real-time shooter game closer to agar.io, but that's a little out of my wheelhouse.

So that's pretty much the gist. Thoughts? Questions? This is just an idea I came up with playing Citizens of Earth the other day, I'm not trying to monetize it or anything, I just personally would want to play a game like this. I'm fascinated with the idea of taking the gamification of social media to the nth degree. I think it's something that could catch on, but absolutely no one is doing this. Obviously I'm assuming I'd use twitter to gather the data but it could easily work on many other social media sites.

Best methods for achieving goals for example:

Making money

Gaining influence

How to organize a company

How to get ahead in life

How to deal with Jack of all trades syndrome

Staying motivated

How to motivate others

How to get the upper hand in any practical situation

How to be a strong personality

What are illusions how to avoid having useless illusions

How to stay in the moment

How to be productive

Working smarter not harder

Anyways this is some stuff I would like to discuss but I don't want to make thousands of posts. Yes some are related.

We all use energy. Our consumption is increasing greater than renewable resources are providing and more than efficiency can prevent.

Bill Gates is investing in nuclear fusion and other projects as cleaner options.

I think having cheaper, cleaner, and more availability of energy is the best thing we can do for our environment or society.

an article on gates' energy projects

Greetings, INTJs! I'm not sure if I'm an INTJ myself or not, I feel I may be INTP but that's all irrelevant. Anyway, something I'm interested in is educational reform. It often seems that the American educational system is deeply flawed and I like discuss ways in which it could be repaired, even if those changes will never be implemented.

I personally believe that emphasis is often placed on the wrong things. Take history classes, for example. The broad purpose of history is to pull out principles and lessons from the past and apply them to the present day, so as to not repeat the mistakes made in the past and better prepare for the future. However, it seems to me that schools often focus too much on the arguably irrelevant details, such as dates and random bits of trivia.

What do you all think its weakest points are?

Goal for this think tank: finding-fixing mistakes in the next lines or keeping track of the conclusions for future reference.

A main benefit of simulating reality (consistent fiction) is gaining experience before otherwise costly events happen. Analogy: flying a simulator before an actual plane. The simulation has to really resemble reality to be useful.

Given the resources of modern humans, there is a range between "cheap" and "expensive" operating costs (in brain time share) for developing and processing fictions. A small percentage of people, those that have sucesfully devoted more effort to the task, are in a better position to find solutions and derive benefit from the most expensive "solvable" cases. (This dexterity is acquired while growing-up, finding pleasure in related habits). Analogy: there are simple medical procedures, difficult ones and unsolvable ones. People that can solve the difficult ones have social advantages, more so than people that can solve the simple ones but not the difficult ones. Ideas, formulas, abstractions and theories follow this logic.

There are advantages in specializing to a high degree in the past or the present or possible-futures (instead of assigning similar priorities to them). There are other cases in which balancing them is better. The past is better served recording facts that are themselves patterns, the present is better served by lower reactions times to sensorial information (example: sports professionals) The possible-futures is exercised by creating fictions.

Regular dreaming and daydreaming can become very detailed (example: when birds are flying in a dream they are moving the wings the way they do in reality). If it had to be programmed in computers or animated for a movie the current cost (dollars) of development tends to the higher end. So dreams are not a triviality that the brain does while "idle".

These are forms of managing fictions (a percentage of them become real or always were): Regular night dreams Books, movies Daydreaming Mentally rehearsing a conflict before it happens Digital simulations Introverted intuition