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If I could give just one thing to spiritual/religious Twitter/X it would be the 'view pill'. #PracticeWithInformedConsent
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When I was a teenager, I had a lovely chocolate Labrador Retriever.
She loved her food.
We kept a big bad of dog food in the pantry. One day, we came home. She had gotten into the pantry, eaten about 10 pounds of dog food, and vomited all over the kitchen.
There are many second-order consequences she did not foresee, with no maliciousness.
A dog might be able to learn the impact of eating that much food.
But probably won't learn that a human goes off and purchases the food. For them, the food is just "magical manna" that appears.
Occasionally, like my beloved pet, you encounter humans who, with no maliciousness, simple can't cognize second-order consequences, and, also, as any person does, desire maximal freedom.
This is simply an unsolvable political riddle: how to give people maximal freedom when the exercise of that freedom is destructive, and they are unable to cognize such second-order effects and incorporate them into their decisions.
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You don't have to have an excuse for wanting life, humanity, civilization to continue. You don't have to couch it in a redemptive vision of human potential or a story about how we're cosmically special beings. You can just want it, whole-heartedly, without extrinsic justification
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ཨ How the Dzogchen Sky Realm movement practice works, where it fits with other practices, and why @JaredJanes and @almostheir love it. They are leading a half-day introductory virtual Sky Realm retreat on August 30th. Links in reply tweet!
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As the #1 C-tier cult leader, I feel a responsibility to join my cult, if someone can tell me where to find it? xitter.cf/segyges/status/2006354…
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Hard to imagine a more timely theme than yearning for a mythical father's homecoming. Such a catharsis should be in the aesthetic language contemporary young men already know and understand.
The Odyssey is a timeless heroic fantasy. It's fine that Nolan makes it look like one.
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I do not like the pejorative in the Three Poisons (Attachment, Aversion, Ignoring).
Instead: the valence neutral Three Involvements: Emphasizing, De-emphasizing, and Setting Aside.
They become poisons only when they arise as compulsory, and not when liberated from compulsion.
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the most narcissistic people I know feel very strongly that they're really smart. the smartest people I know all feel that they're half-rеtаrdеd.
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Most of our relational problems aren't about events or beliefs, they're about deeply held stuckness in patterns of interaction.
Time for my Kaleidoscope of Interactions course again :-)
Big changes since its initial run in 2023. Evolving Ground has iterated over it and we've turned it into a three part series. We're running Part I as a managable 4 week introduction, starting this Wednesday, February 18th. More 👇
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I maintain that it's an interesting question––perhaps the most interesting question––despite fully acknowledging it's not a requirement for highly undesirable outcomes.
The idea that it's a silly question rests on the proposition that questions of machine consciousness are only important for reasons related to x-risk, which is false.
The question is interesting / important because it will help us to better comprehend our own nature, and perhaps ground our sense of meaning amidst an already disorienting future.

























