It actually really does show you a „different reality“. It has different effects on different people, I assume. For me, it was quite eye-opening, in that it made me stop using cigarettes for example. But for others, it leads to those strange thoughts of living in the matrix or something
I figured what the author is talking about is often my problem. If I want to learn a new concept, I have to know the meta regarding that concept, to the point it distracts me from the actual concept I wanted to learn in the first place. It’s annoying me, and I don’t know why that happens every single time.
I don’t think we need programmers. I think for this task we’d need neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, mathematicians and engineers. Also, I don’t think we need more developers working on that problem. We need the right people with the right motivation and cognitive abilities to solve the problem of Artificial General Intelligence.
There is the narrating self and the experiencing self. The narrating self makes up stories from the information that the experiencing self feeds to it. The important thing being that the experiencing self cannot judge, it just... experiences. Takes in every bit of sensory information and let’s the narrating self make up the story it thinks matches the experience one goes through.
Now, imagine the sensory overload you get when stuck on YouTube, showing those reviews, unboxing videos, whatever to you - or more precisely, to your experiencing self. At some point your narrating self will make up the story and then you end up paying 15k for camera equipment... of course, it’s your choice, right?
As far as I could see there is no way to add certain stocks/crypto/funds etc. basically just a slightly better spreadsheet, you have to enter all by yourself. That’s a pitty, I would like to have one where I just enter which stock I bought and when and it shows me the win/loss over time.
The point is to first validate your idea by asking people if they're actually willing to pay for your service, hypothetically. I don't think the author means actually setting up a contract where the potential interested parties actually pay you upfront for a service that doesn't exist.