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Aella
@Aella_Girl
once i threw a party for the bay area rationalists, and the rules to attend were you had to be wearing a full-face coverage mask, and be naked. Many came; they all bravely stripped, donned weird masks... and then proceeded to sit in a polite circle and debate global trade.
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@makoConstruct
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@Aella_Girl
This reminds me of something
@QiaochuYuan
said on eigenpodcast about rationalist parties... you couldn't have possibly come up with a stronger cue for a change in social frame... and they still just wanna talk about global trade.
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@makoConstruct
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@QiaochuYuan
and
@Aella_Girl
I can't tell whether it's bad lol. It's probably a proclivity that assists the project of finding a metaphysics (way of thinking) that generalizes over every phenomenon and activity, being always in one frame, one has to make it a pretty damn good frame.
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@Aella_Girl
Replying to
@QiaochuYuan
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@makoConstruct
yeah, same. i really admire it about them, and i'm grateful that some people are out there thinking very hard about these things, but also i really want a party where a different part of the brain comes online. problem is i want to do that with rationalists!
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