Win-Win with Liv Boeree #6 - Cate Hall: Poker, Pandemics, Overcoming Addiction, and Meeting God
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Aug 9, 2023 AI Snips
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Why US Litigation Favors Power Over Truth
- Cate Hall argues the US litigation system incentivizes power plays over truth seeking and creates vast resource asymmetries.
- She cites document-burial tactics, fee structures, and expensive adversarial processes that favor large firms and companies.
How A Public Heads Up Match Became A Low Point
- A high-profile heads-up match driven by online abuse became a psychological low point for Hall despite technical preparedness.
- She describes intense anxiety about public loss and regret about fueling animosity beforehand.
The Series Of Mystical Experiences That Broke Reality
- Hall recounts a sequence of drug-induced mystical experiences: out-of-body views, infinite timelines, Hindu-like deities, then a dissolving river of universal consciousness.
- These episodes motivated obsessive documentation, buying cameras and filling notebooks to replicate and share them.