Being young and avoiding death forever. It's a Romanian children's story:
https://www.povesti-pentru-copii.co...e-fara-batranete-si-viata-fara-de-moarte.html and it depressed the hell out of me somewehere around 10 when I read it.
So I immediately started applying the following algorithm ever since:
try {
- accept the mental band aid provided by religion and the belief there's still something after nothing
} catch (StillCantBelieveThisBullshitException) {
- I'm gonna engineer myself to being young and cheating death forever
- This is likely gonna take a huge amount of resources like hiring not the tens of thousands of highly intelligent people who are working on this currently but millions of them
- There's an immense amount of intellectual energy wasted in what amounts to digging holes and filling them up again, if only I could harness that and have those people work on genetical engineering and environmental physics instead changing layouts and button colors and adding 17 new layers of tracking everyone with every obligatory OS / app update happening at least twice a year so they can be sold more crap which keeps the NOP machine going (the best example of an extremely intelligent computing machine made by humans used for running NOP operations is Bitcoin)
- I'm gonna try become a billionaire and hire as many smart guys like me to work with me under similar incentives: starting with being ensured me and my family doesn't have to do busy NOP operations for a living at least several generations.
} catch (WillNeverMakeEnoughMoneyToBeatWhatAwaitsMeBeforeItGetsMe) {
- So I relaxed my project specifications. Can't beat it, can't avoid it. At least deal with it on my own terms:
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/do-i-need-dutch-citizenship-for-this.363391/
}