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What are examples of problems you couldn't solve with your mind?

  Broken heart
  Broken leg
  Blindness
  Losing a child
  Having a low (or too high) IQ
  Having severe mental disorder(s)

This is what happens when you run country music through lossy compression.

Ok, this was funny.

Needs a "Broken truck" line.

There's no such thing as an IQ too high. This is always some other problem like anxiety.

Ever been in a relationship? There are a lot of problems you can’t just solve with rational thinking.

Emotional intelligence and empathy are still part of the mind.

The original comment mentioned rational minds, which is relying on neither of those things.

Rational was an adjective. If you think that "rationality" is some objective feature that humanity can separate from emotions, you are deluded.

This reply somehow gets and misses what I was trying to get at.

No, of course I don't believe rationality is like that. The implicit point was that many people in tech do have an attitude like this. They overvalue their "objective" rational reasoning, ironically due to irrational needs.

Problems which can't be expressed as a ratio.

So the real problems.

And complex ones.

Are you saying all problems are imaginary ?

When you get to the root of them, yes.

Any that involves interaction with multiple people; you cannot predict others, especially since most people don't always act fully rationally.

No one always acts fully rationally

I think people say that others dont act rationally, when really they just don't understand the other person's goals and how their behaviour contributes to their goals.

If i pass up $100 to get a burger, am i acting irrationally? It depends if i'm hungry. It depends how much $100 means to me (Am i bill gates?). Its impossible to say from the outside. I'm convinced much behaviour is basically the same except much more complex with multiple conflicting priorities.

No, people really just don't think rationally. Read Daniel Kahneman. It's been studied extensively.

-Job loss -Romantic losses -Self compassion -Self care

Conceptually, think about how many times your friends have an issue that seems trivial for you (on the outside) to fix. Surely the same applies to you. Especially if you're high functioning, by definition anything left to work on is relatively outside your awareness and can't be solved from the "inside".

You need blank lines for the pseudo-bullets to not combine together like this.

(Caught my eye quickly scrolling down because they look like java command-line options)

Some 80% or so of worlds’ problems are human interfacing problems than mathematical-engineering challenges, and its best to exploit native ability to handle it that we all received when born.

World peace.

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