icris

if i were them i would rather invest it and return later w/ interest

i am aware of it. i was not pretending we could reach zero entropy but nevertheless it manifests entropy reduction compared to an energetic non-optimal raw material doesn't it? meaning if we need less energy for the same amount of work we do it more efficiently and therefore require less (but not null!) entropic output

does this imply an overall entropy reduction for a whole system comprising a device and support apparatus for reusing its heat as energy source supply?

i think the alarm is a bit overrated. it talks about "misinformation campaigns indistinguishable from reality", but if so it means they don't add more view prejudice to reality than the one that it already possess, so no harm

the danger is when disinformation distorts reality and in that case it's very distinguishable from reality, at least, i think, to an educated mind. for the others i don't think misinformation does anything for their worldview than what they have right now, if anything is just a case of confirmation bias playing on their susceptible minds

the greatest danger is for people with open minds but little literacy to digest and filter info from crap noise that can become prey of some well crafted campaigns to elude. but for better or worst people are more educated now than they were once before and we can foresee that they will be even more when the problem becomes too manifest, but will it be enough?

but even in the worst scenario i anticipate probably nothing more than an inconvenient drawback - but there's how society evolves anyway, a perpetual dialectic motion of advances and set backs - because to be really useful prejudice world views should possess better predicaments for the worlds troubles and that they have not, because paradoxically if that had they would be not prejudices in the first place. so they could only engage people on some conditioned response temporarily before reality throws them out. but maybe i'm being naive, who knows?

i am no specialist but the way the ego works maybe you are making a very high idealized version of you that when compared with the real persona you find a big hiatus between what you perceive you are and the one you want to become. maybe you should relax a little such high standards for a more down-to-earth person, frequently people less exigent are just happiest. i call this the john wayne syndrome because we are trying to be the hero of our own life whereas we are just regular folks. also seek if there are repressed feelings you avoid that are inducing self-abusive behavior

i personally give up hope, the sense that someday i will overcome my schizophrenia. instead i incorporate it as a new paradigm, a new side of me so that by knowing it's there i know the cause and be able to handle it more easily, and also by avoiding portraying it as a insurmountable monster so as to convince it is just a trick of the mind on me and move on. no regrets, no cries, no self-pity. that's more easily said than done sometimes but that's the drive

i've never taken a pill so far chosen to take a more holistic approach and i consider that i'm not in a worse condition than i would if medicated and this gives me the extra benefit of considering drugs as a last resort of sorts if nothing else works, if i was heavy on drugs that probably would give me some sense of despair since it seemed there was no exit left, so if you need help seek a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist. also seek support groups with similar conditions in your area or online (that step we seem already making) since we humans are social beasts rather than solitary wanderers and we need the comfort of knowing we are not alone and somewhere there are people going trough the same pains as we; that might be a group instinct bias pushing us over to integrate but i feel that much more appeal with someone on the same track knowing what i am talking about rather than talking generic abstraction like "it will all turn all right" good intended as they may be, i prefer being down with someone that understand my pain than being pushed up to party by someone trying to compulsively cheer me up. i think we live in a society that overall is trying real hard for everyone to feel good because that way we are most likely to buy the junk that everyone is trying to sell each other on this post-capitalist distopia, but i am digressing, the point is i think i have the right to misery and to suffer, not passively but on my own terms, to reach nirvana, whatever that means, on my own pace. so here's my advice: don't put a bright face just for the sake of others, don't represent for them or you will turn into a caricature of yourself, if that way you are turning away some around you, maybe you are pushing the right ones and who's left are the ones you can count on