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Here are the best and most important posts of this blog. Enjoy!

My psychological development:

1. 2009-04-08 Last resort: That’s the sinister and deeply angry rant which started this blog.
2. 2009-04-12 My plans for the Singularity: What would I do if I there was really fantastically advanced technology available.
3. 2009-04-22 Thoughts about my depression: At this point, my depression has become so strong, that I decided to take antidepressants. I also stated some possible causes for my depression.
4. 2009-04-27 Reasons for Optimism: Here, I stated the idea that I got depressed simply, because my life was too unbalanced. Later on, I turned this idea into my EG-Theory. The optimistic insight I explained in this post was that people may be actually doing the best, which is actually possible in their current situation when taking all limiting factors into accounts. In “Capability Criticality: We Are Just As Good, Benevolent and Rational As Our Skills Permit” I explained that view in more detail.
5. 2009-04-30 Possible uses of depression: Depression may have some good sides. In this post I mentioned some of the possible benefits.
6. 2009-05-08 Thorn to falsehood: In this rant I declared my dedication to spreading the truth. I also alluded to my ideas about immortality, but without actually explaining them.
7. 2010-03-08 Maximum time distance for the effectivity of promised rewards: I found out that promised rewards are only act as effective motivation, if I get them within 24 hours.
8. 2010-04-10 Paradigm: Entertainment: Why is entertainment really important?
9. 2010-07-14 The Story of Myself: In this summary of my life up to that date I describe my intense satori experience. I also explain why all of us are immortal in a certain sense.
10. 2010-08-03 An attempt to explain depression: EG-Theory: My Effort-Gratification-Theory states that an imbalance between efforts and gratification can lead to depression and burnout. This theory is also based on my personal experiences.
11. 2011-01-06 New: Blogroll Links, E-Mail Addresses, Nickname: Here I explain how I have designed my current nick “RadiVis”.
12. 2011-01-31 About (The Future of) This Blog: Some important topics of this blog are explained here.
13. 2011-02-10 Understanding Myself: Seeking Perfection and Adverse Consequences: The most important reasons and mechanisms, which push me into depression again and again are explained in this post.
14. 2011-02-11 Problem Analysis is useful, but doesn’t help! What are the problems of problem analysis and how does scientific self-improvement work?
15. 2011-02-22 Capability Criticality: We Are Just As Good, Benevolent and Rational As Our Skills Permit. The insights from this post made me think about blogging more about philosophical and psychological self-imrovement.
16. 2011-02-27 From being depressed and burnt out to Being Who I Want To Be – Part 1: Here I begin telling the story of my recent ascension.
17. 2011-03-05 Capability Augmentation Will Solve All Our Problems! Reasons for great optimism and great self-improvement resources wait for you here.
18. 2011-03-11 Two Essential Turning Points in my Life: Enlightenment; Self-management System: What changed my life most was my enlightenment experience and the development of my sophisticated self-management system, which I explain in this post.
19. 2011-03-16 From being depressed and burnt out to Being Who I Want To Be – Part 2: This post shows the methods I used to become a more balanced person.
20. 2011-03-25 University drop out: I decided to do writing and blogging for a living, since I realized I had a chance at that, and my studies seemed relatively irrelevant to what I really wanted to do.
21. 2011-04-01 From being depressed and burnt out to Being Who I Want To Be – Part 3: At last, I found out how to organize myself efficiently. Thanks to the book Getting Things Done. It also inspired me to buy a smart phone.
22. 2011-04-15 6 Anti Procrastination Hacks: I’ve collected my best tactical weapons against procrastination in this post. Victory is very likely.
23. 2011-04-18 Excitement Makes All The Difference To Your Life: Finally, I discovered the crucial importance of excitement and passion. It’s what really drives us to unleash our full potential.
24. 2011-04-22 From being depressed and burnt out to Being Who I Want To Be – Part 4: In this post I describe how I doubled my productivity by applying some really clever tricks. That way I made a really essential breakthrough in my life.

Philosophy

1. 2009-09-08 The Ascent of Life: It’s a philosophy based on utilitarianism and the identification of oneself with all of life.
2. 2009-09-08 Visions of Life: Utilitarianism, Liberty and the Anima Mundi: Some thoughts about friendly-AI and about which ethical values a supremely powerful artificial intelligence should optimally follow.
3. 2009-09-14 Some more thoughts about friendly-AI: Some examples how the creation of AGI could go wrong, and an example of a sensible system of three general targets friendly AI should aim for.
4. 2009-09-17 The Destructive No vs. The Constructive No: It’s better to be constructive than just to oppose something.
5. 2009-09-22 Revisiting the futures: Why the Singularity might be a bit overrated and why friendliness matters.
6. 2009-09-30 What’s Our World and Why Simulate a Universe?: Four motives for the simulation of a universe are presented here.
7. 2010-01-26 Declaration of the War for Fun! Because fun is the only thing that’s really worth fighting for.
8. 2010-03-20 The Consequentialist’s Diamond Rule: Do whatever you want, but don’t think that you will be spared by the consequences of your actions.
9. 2011-03-23 Practical Philosophy: What to do next? Part 1: Quick answers: How to decide quickly – if you have to.

Future Visions

1. 2009-09-08 Visions of Life: Background Story: This posts presents an early form of the background story of the Our Ascent world.
2. 2009-09-13 Visions of Life: Focus Minds: Those are specialized and very complicated group- / hive-minds.
3. 2009-10-05 Visions of Life: Updated Timeline: Here’s a radically optimistic timeline for the future in which the Singularity happens somewhere around 2025.
4. 2010-01-10 An outline of post-singularity civilization: Part 1 – Computation: How will the ultimate computation devices look like?
5. 2010-07-25 An outline of post-singularity civilization: Part 2 – Mind types: What types of minds will live in a post-singularity civilization?

Economics

1. 2009-10-17 Thoughts about Reputation Economics: A first presentation of my idea for a reputation based economical system called RepoFluido. The post also mentions its possible application to create a new political system called repocracy.
2. 2009-10-23 Income inequality as reason for economic crises: Why does income inequality breed crises?
3. 2010-04-08 Problems with Zeitgeist / Venus Project: Why the Venus Project won’t work out.
4. 2011-04-08 Aura: An Open Content System Idea: How to make money if almost everything is available for free.

Health

1. 2011-04-11 Candida, Leaky Gut Syndrome and Associated Health Problems: Candida is more of a health problem than is publicly realized. There are connections to the Leaky Gut Syndrome, which has a broad spectrum of nasty symptoms.

Reviews

1. 2010-12-20 myAndroid – Part 1/3: Comparison of some good smart phones and short review of some important Android apps.
2. 2010-12-31 myAndroid – Part 2/3: Presents lots of useful utility apps for Android.
3. 2011-01-02 myAndroid – Part 3/3: Just for the fun of it: Entertainment apps.