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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
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
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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
have i tried to sell you on "nonverbal party" yet no spoken words, no written words, all consent etc. has to be navigated nonverbally, all of this is in the party description so people who aren't up for it don't come
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
oh i don't remember. this might be good. i've done it before in non-rationalist circles and it got pretty boring after an hour or so. But even an hour might be good!
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Loving Elodes
@ElodesNL
QC I've participated in two nonverbal spaces; one of them was specifically about navigating physical boundaries; the other way an all-out "do whatever" that saw people wrestling with each other, playing with each other like literal animals, etc. what kinda space do you mean?
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