"Then, sort through the inputs you receive from the world and make sure they are as unadulterated as possible"
To create a truly aesthetic/beautiful life worthy of ascension into the Kingdom of God on Judgment Day (when a movie of your entire life is played from birth) [1] and to have the most beautiful possible brain, you must have the most unadulterated brain free of "unnecessary wasteful computations" (eg school). Laura Deming (the first true player of the infinite game) was one of the first people to achieve an approximation to this, as she was unschooled in New Zealand - freeing her brain from the mimetic pollution of K12 education *and* the air pollution of the world. She is known for caring *a lot* about taste, and has become super-selective over what people/input streams to expose herself to, though her VC activity did expose her to A LOT of social noise/wasted time (it didn't decrease her courage/confidence in life like what MIT did to her - that is the most important thing!) She probably has one of the most pollution-free brains of the entire world. We have a duty to create more people like this.
[1] biblical metaphors for longevity/immortality, which the Garden of Eden is replete of. I am not religious myself, but (thanks to Peter Thiel/Sonia Joseph) have taken huge interest in biblical metaphors to explain beauty and longevity (and believe there is a case for the Christian case for immortality).
"Then, sort through the inputs you receive from the world and make sure they are as unadulterated as possible"
To create a truly aesthetic/beautiful life worthy of ascension into the Kingdom of God on Judgment Day (when a movie of your entire life is played from birth) [1] and to have the most beautiful possible brain, you must have the most unadulterated brain free of "unnecessary wasteful computations" (eg school). Laura Deming (the first true player of the infinite game) was one of the first people to achieve an approximation to this, as she was unschooled in New Zealand - freeing her brain from the mimetic pollution of K12 education *and* the air pollution of the world. She is known for caring *a lot* about taste, and has become super-selective over what people/input streams to expose herself to, though her VC activity did expose her to A LOT of social noise/wasted time (it didn't decrease her courage/confidence in life like what MIT did to her - that is the most important thing!) She probably has one of the most pollution-free brains of the entire world. We have a duty to create more people like this.
[1] biblical metaphors for longevity/immortality, which the Garden of Eden is replete of. I am not religious myself, but (thanks to Peter Thiel/Sonia Joseph) have taken huge interest in biblical metaphors to explain beauty and longevity (and believe there is a case for the Christian case for immortality).
The Diamond Age is idealistically about optimizing for a beautiful life/input stream.