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"And so, the left–right struggle is not between those who have power and those who don't, but between those who think the world would be fucked up __without__ someone having power, and those who think the world will be fucked up __as long as__ somebody has power. "

"To understand everything written here, you need to find a feeling in yourself. This feeling is: "what you're doing to me is bad, and I can't even explain why, not in a way you would understand, and perhaps I myself don't know why, either"."

"Does religion make people happier? Does it help to coordinate the society? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. But you can't figure out whether it does or not just by correctly observing that religions are full of lies."

"That wealth is, theoretically, to give people the lives they want. But what if the lives that people really want have much more to do with social ties than they do with economic ties? And, indeed, that the process of creating a labor market destroys precisely those" - Lou Keep

"The decision whether to treat something as knowledge or not is a small part of the world-wide algorithm, "Science", aimed at improving the world."

"I know that they won't be persuaded merely by giving them a couple examples they haven't taken into account, there's nothing else I can do. "It won't work because {a description of my whole life thrown at you like a ball}."

"My answer is that complicated unfamiliar problems are nearly impossible to solve __until they are made familiar__. And I think that reasoning-- even when it's total bullshit- plays an important role in the familiarization process,"

"Synthesis is: you replace most "but"s with "and"s."  "Things are important **and** I won't work on them **and** it doesn't make me a bad person"

"It is possible to delude yourself, sure. So don't apply synthesis to create new beliefs—apply it when you notice that you __already__ have conflicting beliefs."

"Ignoring things is problematic because your brain doesn't want things ignored. It wants them acknowledged. YOUR BRAIN WANTS THINGS ACKNOWLEDGED. This is the most important thing to remember."

"What do you need as a child? You need somebody who is completely aware of you and takes you seriously. If you don't get it, you're going to spend your whole life looking for it, but (spoiler) you won't succeed as long as you are unable to mourn what happened to you in the past."

"Unconditional love is possible only in childhood. Nobody else, ever, will love you unconditionally. This is what you have to mourn, so that you can move forward."

"Learning to give things up was pretty painful. I used to want to do __everything__ that seemed like a good idea and was doable.** I didn't know what I cared about, and so I was looking for lots and lots and lots of easy wins."

"Turns out that if something serves many purposes, it inevitably becomes a place full of anxiety"

"ADHD-y guilt comes with an escape hatch: "if you succeed, you were a good person all along". "I thought that if I returned with the finished task, all would be forgiven."

"Yes, I am selfish. Yes, I __do__ want to burn the world down just so that I can live forever. I will feel very bad doing it, and I will not do it, but I want to. (This is also called: eating the shadow.)"

"Yes, it does mean that you don't always get a fair chance to defend yourself. The image of you that I have created in some people's minds, might be disliked, unfairly, wrongly, and you can't do anything to change that. I will try to avoid this to some extent."

"Each thought-bucket I create serves as an attractor. By creating different buckets, I can control the direction in which I think."

"When I was in actual therapy, I used the same approach. I was proud of knowing what I felt, and wanted to impress therapists with not being like “those other clueless patients”.

"A different failure mode of public self-therapy is — when you stop caring about therapy after a while. When you turn your therapy account into a purely conversational account. When you try to show off how good you are at therapy. When you try to get more followers."

"Turning into a “wise” advice-account is not useful. But sometimes saying things you already know __is__ useful — because saying them solidifies them in your head."

"Well, fuck tomorrow’s me in advance. I don’t like him and whatever he will say. This is explicitly to him: Fuck you. Whatever you come up with, you will be wrong and dishonest and your motivation will be corrupt."

"If you always have to look like you know what you're talking about, you can't change your mind easily." "You start thinking about how you should only say things that you can justify, and boom, you can no longer __figure__ anything out"