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Nobody is perfectly rational. We're all just muddling with messy brain models. But there's a difference between trying, and not-trying. Postrat twitter has this norm that trying is actually gauche and mocking it is always a good way back to vibes.

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Often Wrong

@realtimeai

Apr 4

Yeah I mainly want to argue with my friends who I think are smart and susceptible to reason.

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Often Wrong

@realtimeai

Apr 4

I meant you 🧐❤️

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Apr 4

im just having flashbacks to ppl who hurt me because they were adhering to a system of thought that they werent bothering to sufficiently check was true like "logic won't persuade me" feels like mega red flag huge warning danger destruction signs to me

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

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if this is the actual thing that drives you i wish you had just opened with that. your problem isn't with any particular belief, it's with a kind of person who holds beliefs in a kind of way that you've been hurt by

6:49 PM · Apr 4, 2022Twitter Web App

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Trying to imagine your own response to someone telling you what you really mean and how you should have instead chosen to talk about it.

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it's not *just* that, otherwise i would have opened with that

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that actually feels like a really great articulation of how aella has written about astrology epistemics in the past! about how something structural is like “don’t question this too rigorously” and yet questioning rigorously can be pretty damn important in feeling safe