Hi, I'm Remu!

I'm a twenty-something-year-old amateur generalist who has had very broad special interests from the get go. Philosophy, logic, psychology, psychiatry, cognition, biology, sociology, history, literature, politics, economics, finance, internet, culture, computers, cryptography, privacy, cybersecurity, hacking, biohacking, just to name a few.I've also been very active all my life. I've done martial arts, skateboarding, snowboarding, hiking, wilderness survival, rock climbing, bouldering, powerlifting, cycling, running, cold water swimming, and extreme sauna, all at least semi-seriously.From the arts, I mostly enjoy and create photography, cinematography, and different forms of street art. I listen to electronic music, hip-hop, jazz, hippie rock, and some black metal. Unfortunately, I was not gifted with any musical talent to create music myself.I'm from northern Finland, but I'm currently based in Helsinki.

Shout out to the following people who have heavily influenced my worldview: Daniel Kahneman, Nassim Taleb, Dale Carnegie, Abraham Lincoln, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Karl Popper, Robert M. Pirsig, Carl Jung, J. K. Rowling, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, George Orwell, David Graber, Jordan B. Peterson, Satoshi Nakamoto, Saifedean Ammous, Andreas Antonopoulos, Edward Snowden, Kari Enqvist, Esa Saarinen, Mikko Hyppönen, Henry Soinnunmaa, Joe Rogan, Jocko Willink, John C. Lilly, Tony Allen, and moot.Concepts I like that I learned from others: skeptical empiricism, fuzzy logic, non-cognitivism, eternal recurrence, conformal cyclic cosmology, agorism, piratism, deism, individualism but also non-dualism, cybernetics, imagined communities, free will is a pseudoquestion, relevancy realization, rat utopia, rent-seeking behaviour, financialization, elite overproduction, gerantocracy, collective unconsciousness, god as conscience, the purpose of a system is what it does, sociology as imagination, philosophy as concept engineering.Some unfinished thoughts that I think I synthesized:The intersubjective theory of value. Passive anarchism.Country-not-state.Freedom is the liability of consequences; tyranny is a bail-out.Independence and sovereignty are more useful concepts than freedom and liberty.The world is already ancap.Rationality is following instructions (deduction), intelligence is pattern recognition (induction), and wisdom is error correction (abduction), but none of those necessarily overlap. Imagination defines the adaptation and survival of an individual. People are rarely rational, or intelligent, or wise, but are above all imaginative. Because humans are imaginative, they are diverse. Diversity and adaptability define the survival of the species. Diversity does not imply social entropy; it implies control groups. Without control groups, we are fooled by survivorship bias and crushed by unknown unknowns. Because humans are imaginative, adaptable, and diverse, there are very few facts or rules that apply; instead, there are some heuristics. Foolishness is the inability to detect and apply useful heuristics in context.If free will exists, it's arm's length from action and likely hides behind reinforced learning. If one has the capacity for meta-cognition, they can modify their own behavioral patterns through reinforced learning, and thus they have the potential to steer their will. Because people are rather imaginative than rational, there are no efficient markets, albeit markets are the least inefficient way of organizing human endeavour. Systems with feedback loops, like markets and evolution, predominantly reward for prediction accuracy. That's why a human mind is a prediction machine, and that's why human behaviour is a pattern mostly formed by ones past. That's why rationality is only possible in hindsight (a posteriori). That's why free decisions live only in the second-order thinking, and are hardly demonstrated in observed action (as opposed to the theory of action). Imagination, together with wisdom, makes for accurate predictions. And that is how to win in the game of life.Bitcoin could be the solution to the Fermi paradox if it inaugurates a low enough time preference needed for galactic civilization.The heat death is the big bang. Space-time is a pulse. It might not be the next beat, but at some point, we wake up at an identical one. So the real categorical imperative is to assume one's past is also their future. For every perceived consequence of one's actions, one must put up with an infinite times more. Though there's a chance they happened to spawn in a Boltzmann brain iteration, which is relieving because then all of this is just a dream.