Ok, but does 'neoreaction is endangering my weight-loss program' seem materially less absurd?
Plenty of examples of negative time pref fit within the framing of improvement. Suffering from consumption is right, though. In sequences pregnant with meaning, many ppl prefer an ordering that saves the best for last.
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negative time preference would demand saving the best for never.
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just hodl
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Low time preference, self-improvement, etc. can be separated out from the age-old fantasies of transcendence hooked up to bodily-control and mastery over death.
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They're fully compatible with bottom-up material accounts of being, so long as you acknowledge constraints (Nietzsche’s sense of ‘health').
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I've been reading her argument—admittedly a little obscurely—as a critique of hylomorphism. What’s at stake is an abstract relationship with matter.
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Not only do control fantasists make inane transcendental assumptions about agency and synthesis, they have their conceptions of sickness and health roughly inverted.
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Man's subborn dream of ultimate control over matter and flight from death is not a far right thing (it’d be far less noxious if that’s all it was).
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