What a coincidence!!!!!
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But I think asking yourself "what are my goals in life" is more productive than asking yourself "what do I need", at least it comes more naturally to me.
I think I see what you mean. It's searching for a vision that makes intuitive sense, no?
Also, thank you for explaining
so i don't think you can just say something is a need, you need to decide what your goals are, probably with some hierarchy of goals, and work backwards from that to the needs. Or conversely, to know if something is a need, think about if not having it would keep you from your goal.
Hmm, sadly that results in a circular reasoning, no? How do you decide upon goals - which goals are important (needs) and which are folly (desire)? Should we simply trust Maslow got it right?
They also don't really know if anything else is a need or a desire without attempting to go without it.
That's a very practical answer. I like it! Thank you!
Where I live it made it into law even: vacation is mandatory because the majority decided it's a need.
Why does the list grow? How?
Exactly my question too.
Who does that?
I observe it everywhere. For example when people say they need a vacation. Or when people say they need strong social bonds.
It's obviously not a necessity to keep their body alive. But I do believe they view it as a genuine need?
and instead something people have to do to survive?
Eventually that group of "things" grows endlessly, no? The hedonistic treadmill?
You can keep a person alive in a zoo easily. Water, food, shelter. Untill they realise they're in a zoo. Then the "need" for freedom arises.
Thank you for elaborating. Let me ponder a while on your ideas :)
Needs are instrumental to some normative goal.
Can you elaborate please as I don't quite understand? Normative goal, as in societal norm? Where does the goal come from?
Hopefully what I said here makes some sort of sense, lol.
Yes. It's what I'm gravitating towards as well. That it's all mostly biological. And reason is there only to more easily quench those instinct. I like the rephrasing as "wants".
That in reason exists no reason to be.
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One of these projects might be of interest to you:
https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI
Do note that CPU inference is quite a lot slower than GPU or the well known SAAS providers. I currently like the quantized deepseek models as the best balance between quality of replies and inference time when not using GPU.