Every person who spends their life optimising for something they don't actually care about is a tragedy
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idk if i still agree with this tweet but:
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The desire to optimize is a disguised form of fear; every optimization is "get me the fuck away from this scary thing, as far as possible."
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I think if I were to optimise for my values correctly then the vast majority of the time I'm not doing anything that looks like optimising, so that tracks
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yeah there’s a subtle difference between orienting towards my values and optimizing / maximizing for them but I can’t quite put it in words yet
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maybe it’s the interplay between different agents in the system, with their distinct values and needs? Optimizing sounds a lot like forcing your will upon the world, what I’m looking for is more of an alignment
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Love is homeostasis; it is wanting to bring things into balance and harmony, and it is deeply okay with rest and stillness.
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perhaps one might say yet again that optimizing is for childless men 😅
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oh no, am I going to be *that* account now? 🤣
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it’s a good shtick imo!
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could easily get another few threads out of the idea, go through the whole western intellectual tradition and just name which ones didn’t have children when they had their most important ideas or ever, maybe do the same for the history of christianity, could do numbers
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branch out from there to a patreon, a podcast, a book deal, bam, next thing you know you’ve founded an entire subdiscipline of critical theory, you’re overturning the work of childless men left and right, ushering in a golden age of people listening to good fathers and mothers
you’re drunk on the fame for awhile until the haze clears and you realize you haven’t seen your child in awhile
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hahahah that’s exactly what my husband is afraid of
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