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I am honestly concerned for Gwern's mental health. So much personal optimization taken to such an extreme, doing blatantly illegal things and blogging about it. Some are probably quite unhealthy.<p>I am all for being the best person we all can be -- but Gwern seems to have made personal optimization the end goal itself.<p>I think we should aim to be happy well adjusted people, not work ourselves to death, not drug ourselves to our physical limit.<p>There were times in my life when I behaved similarly and it was rooted in deep dissatisfaction with life.<p>To be clear, this is not an ad hominem attack. The article is amazing.