@aviationdoctor.eth

Deep down, almost every life decision collapses into this tradeoff: 1/ 躺平 (tang ping / to lay flat), opting out, minimizing entropy production, and postponing ever so slightly the heat death of the universe. 2/ 奋斗 (fèn dòu / to strive), the normative choice of grinding with purpose and maxing out local order at the cost of global dissipation. At cosmic timescales, both are irrelevant. The choice only matters over a human lifetime, plus a few generations for the most impactful among us (which, statistically, probably excludes the 37 of us here)

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