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Epistemic Loneliness is a cognitive form of isolation that happens when you cannot share complex ideas, inner thoughts, or meaningful perspectives because you lack a willing, able, or understanding conversational partner.

https://x.com/signulll/status/2092663785488105779?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

mercy sex

https://www.psypost.org/clinical-trials-reveal-the-hidden-frequency-of-obligatory-sex-in-women-with-low/

interesting take on improving fertility
> the stick works better than the carrot

https://x.com/Molson_Hart/status/2092051246500958467?s=20

post-scarcity abundance

https://x.com/yishan/status/2092041265781277007?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

The decrease in alcohol consumption is very real. About 35-40% of my friend group (25-30yo) has quit drinking since covid.

Based on observation of friends, coworkers + other randos I meet that don’t drink,
1. - health and wellness and
2. - financial aspects
are ‘feel good’ excuses to explain why they don’t drink… not the real reason.

1. - If they quit for health reasons, one would expect them to also eat healthy/avoid fast food, minimize screen time, get exercise, etc… but from what I’ve seen, this is not the case. They are no different than the degenerate alcoholics in these areas.

2 - While a night out drinking is absurdly expensive nowadays (at least where I live 🇨🇦), the sobers are no financially better off than the non-sobers. They are just spending their money elsewhere… sporting events, gambling/sports betting, car mods, man toys, impulse online purchases, etc. They aren’t actually being financially responsible, it’s an easy excuse.


So what is actually the reason they quit drinking then???
Answer = DOPAMINE.

Back in the early 2000s, the only readily accessible way to get quick dopamine was go to the club/bar and have some drinks. What else would you do for fun on a Friday night… sit at home and read a book? cook up a nice dinner? renovate the house you bought for $100k? go for a sunset walk?
All boring. You’re going out boozing and so is everyone else.

But nowadays when you’re bored there are infinite options for ‘fun’.
- scroll 1 of your 50 social media accounts
- watch a new show recommended to you by the algo
- watch streamers do any imaginable activity
- watch any sporting event taking place in any country on earth
- play video games
- gamble on anything you want
- …
the list goes on.

With so many other options, you don’t need to go drinking to get quick dopamine, you can sit in the comfort of your bed with your phone and get a bigger dopamine hit than the club.

There are simply too many other lower effort options than drinking… easy choice, quit drinking and spend that energy on another vice.

The romans faced declining birthrates 2000 years ago, and it destroyed a civilisation

Civilisations die from suicide

https://x.com/JamesLucasIT/status/2090847857666294046?s=20

cool read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_trium_liberorum

had an interesting conversation today about youths and decreasing alcohol consumption

anecdote: friend went clubbing and most of the youths on the dance floor rejected alcohol, choosing to club sober

quick google search suggests that the trend has been ongoing globally for sometime since early 2000s, from boomers to millenials to gen Zs

i do feel that the trend of youths consuming lesser alcohol was made more prominent post-covid

here are some reasons cited:
1. health & wellness
2. financial aspects
3. alternative substances (not applicable in singapore)

personally resonate with points 1 & 2 and Singapore's nightlife has been slowly dying out as a result of costs and policies

related: https://t.me/humblespace/760

reads:
• https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3344930/asias-gen-z-go-sober-alcohol-producers-and-bars-revamp-business-model
• https://movendi.ngo/news-stories/asias-gen-z-drives-alcohol-norm-shift-as-industry-scrambles-to-adapt/
• https://www.straitstimes.com/life/a-waste-of-money-and-time-gen-z-and-millennials-are-over-traditional-nightlife

importance of writing

will start mattering more as society starts delegating to AI (im guilty sometimes)

anecdotally, i hear a lot of friends telling me how much their parents are spending online shopping on tiktok shops, shopee, and more

weekly parcels of random objects that seemed a priority at the point of impulse

not sure if the graph also applies to my country, but you get my point

share of consumer spending by age group

local minima are extremely rare in high dimensional spaces

https://x.com/corsaren/status/2079545703622201708?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw