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jdw64today at 4:39 PM3 repliesview on HN

Tech CEOs are suffering from AI psychosis over next quarter's earnings, while I'm suffering from RI(Rent Installment) psychosis. It makes me wonder if human beings are simply hardwired to suffer from some form of obsession-whether it's FOMO or financial pressure


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lisplisttoday at 4:53 PM

Unsure if the desire to not be homeless can be classified as psychosis.

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trhwaytoday at 5:03 PM

>if human beings are simply hardwired to suffer from some form of obsession

the powerful obsession machinery brought us through the long natural selection process - obsession to watch for snakes and spiders, to maintain cleanliness, etc. With modern civilization we arranged to plug into that powerful machinery other stimuli too - like that RI and all the others making us productive society members. The most happy countries aren't most productive. Especially when they are obsessed with being happy like those Finns obsessed with sauna instead of tokenmaxxing.

b0r3dthisD4ytoday at 5:01 PM

Uh duh?

> It makes me wonder if human beings are simply hardwired to suffer from some form of obsession...

Existential dread pushing biology to survive?

Basic biological facts obfuscated by social memes; ship code, make line go up, worship allegory's of the long dead.

Hunter gatherer clusters vaguely collaborated to survive. Language and agrarian traditions have demanded more than just survival but all kinds of observance of meaningless spoken traditions. Obligation to ignore our own senses and chant the memes of the living elders suffering existential dread of their own, afraid to left unattended in hospice. For whatever reason unable to just say that; they appeal to old religious or political screed.

Caretake this debt ledger after they who ran up the bill are dead.

What?

It's all just obsession to live laundered and obfuscated by useless philosophy.