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1. LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 17:44:16 JST LS

   • kaia
   @kaia i don't think the mindset of "i could be much more successful if I was a worse person" is a good one to have
   • cell (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 19:12:05 JST cell

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     • kaia
     @lain @kaia does this imply that one should be without any moral scruples when hustling, or just be your best while doing your best and may success in its many forms come to you :cat_eyebrow:
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 19:12:05 JST LS

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     • cell
     @cell @kaia I think it fosters something in your mind that I think is a misunderstanding that's bad for your character and for success: That being successful involves being 'bad' or 'evil' somehow. The best way to be successful is to provide the most value to the most people, not to trick and cheat. Having the 'I would be succesful if only I wasn't such a good person' meme makes you resent succesful people ("she could only get there because she doesn't care about morals"), makes you lethargic by giving you a good excuse to never do anything ("i'm not doing well but that's to be expected because I'm a good person") and prevents you from learning from others.
     
     I think you should always try to be as morally correct as you can be in whatever you do, there's no special dispensation for 'business'.
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 19:17:09 JST Moon

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     • cell
     @lain @kaia @cell relevant book:
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   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 19:18:40 JST LS

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     • cell
     @Moon @kaia @cell this is now officially the thread for intellectuals.
     
     Listened to this yesterday, a comparison of the lives and thoughts of nietzsche and dostoevsky, i found it very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7T_NrL36Y
   • Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 23:19:30 JST Aven

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     • cell
     @lain @kaia @cell I agree with this sentiment regarding morality, but there's an important nuance in this particular case.
     
     While TTS and translation are good for non-native english speakers, using AI to generate full scripts in often evil, and I suspect that might be what's being done here.
     
     I've encountered this kind of auto-generated content before, a TTS voice reading Wikipedia or MSM articles, with stock video in the background that is relevant to the words in the script (which can be very funny when it portrays a turn-of-phrase or expression in the script with video).
     
     But this video had zero original research, and is entirely MSM journo smear pieces about Notch, set to a combination of footage from the documentary "Minecraft: The Story of Mojang" and stock video.
     
     It re-churns the churnalism into a new medium, and may have been generated by a bot and massaged by a human.
     
     The channel's other content reveals it to be a clickbait algorithm farm.
     
     So mind that most of what you learned in that video about Notch being evil was written by evil journos as smear, and has been uncritically copy-pasted to the video.
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