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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

Mar 27, 2021

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.

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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@Aella_Girl

yeah this is exactly what i was talking about lol

8:27 PM · Mar 27, 2021Twitter Web App

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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.

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Mar 27, 2021

it's probably a thing some people want if they keep doing it and/but i eventually realized that i did not want it and that was an important difference between me and (some) other rationalists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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六龙大君 Cultural Literati (on the Jianghu scene)

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idk, if you publicly fucked a girl at a rationalist orgy & she kept discussing trade policy whe whole way through ... That would be quite the parlor trick.