This gratifies intellectual curiosity -- how does one become a citizen in one of the most isolationist countries? What is that like??? Read this to find out.

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If somebody from hotjar/cintentsquare sees this, I’d prefer if your page was more straightforward about the name change. Maybe try “we’ve rebranded to content square”

[0] https://contentsquare.com/hotjar/

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We should expect this phenomenon to grow stronger as more high-earners hit retirement age, right? I'd guess we have another 20-30 years at least before this incentive starts to "level out", and that's only if we somehow see wealth distribution become less extremely correlated with age.

> Dear dark father, let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds and darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferan impulse to eat off the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old. Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not for their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations, Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true. Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of one or all. That which will not bend must break. And that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is done. Hail Satan

Perhaps there's more to it, but that's what the article reports as the prayer. I think the bookends ("Dear dark father", "Hail Satan") are funny, and the main context of the prayer is very positive. It reminds me a lot of humanism and effective altruism.

[0] https://www.levels.fyi/

Also I understand why only the uppercase version is given, but it does pretty much preclude me from using the font, since 95% of the letters I type are lowercase

edit: Or maybe something wrong with the way my browser (brave) is rendering it.

It makes me wonder how persistent mental health problems have been through longer scales of time. I have this unquestioned assumption that our historic ancestors (eg, before ~0 AD) had shorter and harder lives physically, but might have had better mental health (less depression / anxiety, etc). However, the plots here indicate that mental health is relatively stable across the span where we do have good measurement, even despite some really big changes. Eg, the people in the 80s had similar suicide rates to people today. And even COVID "only" doubled-to-tripled self-diagnosis of poor mental health. That makes me think that mental health might have been just as bad before we developed lot of modern technology, and perhaps it was even worse due to all the unexpected and unexplained death that must have been very common. Were "cavemen" depressed?

I think one benefit would be the individual participants' self-determination (there may be others). It's ok if you don't find my previous example (abusive relationship) convincing, but in the absence of an objection I'll reuse that. If we could look through all the marriages with a 0% chance of divorce, my bet is that we'd find an abnormally high percentage of abusive relationships. I claim that if a match has _no_ chance of divorce, it probably indicates a lack of self-determination for one of the partners.

Taking a step back, it might be clearer to just argue that length / non-divorce is not what people really want from a marriage. I can't speak for everyone, but I want a happy and fulfilling life, and I seek a partnership to the extent that it supports my desire for a happy and fulfilling life. Yes, I do want the partnership to be long, and I don't want to get divorced. Of course I want my marriage to last forever. But this is not my primary goal in marriage. There are many boring or uninteresting people (apologies to them) who I'm sure I could live with forever, that I'd immediately discard as candidates. Alternatively (making the abuse angle more tangible), I also have a lot of international friends and family that would happily find me an international bride who would never divorce me, and would be happy to marry somebody with a US passport. In fact this is a somewhat common offer, though of course they never say it in those words. You can decide for yourself whether that is abuse, but at least I wouldn't feel comfortable with it.