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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 12

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      thinking you are "More Real" than someone else is stupid and THE most common plateau to spiritual progress.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1356832058895556612?s=20 …

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      just as every problem is an interpersonal relationship problem every political conflict is a conflict of "who is more real". each side thinks they "i am more Real, with my Real friends, doing Real stuff."
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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 12

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      eli5 shadow projection. aka "All the Bad Stuff Comes From YOUR Interpretation of Neutral Reality"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1357215051514486785?s=20 …

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      shadow projection explained to a 5 year old: you know how you get really angry when you stub your toe on an inanimate object? you want to blame the person who put it there, or the manufacturer, or the thing that caused the thing, etc...
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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 12

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      God as a verb vs as a nounhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1357332229307781123?s=20 …

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      it’s not that “God” is specifically masculine imo but that the fall of faith is generally due to the disillusionment of the First Father figure. the feminine is “all around”, ships, countries, Gaia, etc... so can’t be “lost” in the same way.
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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 12

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      freedom of religion as a traphttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1358636430432432130?s=20 …

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      freedom of religion kills religion the same way allowing 2+2=5 as a valid discourse greatly damages the ability for signal to rise above noise. a blanket statement like “everyone can just believe what they want” without a million caveats can be dangerous in very subtle ways.
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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 12

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      "nowness" is less about learning how to balance but letting go of the need to oversteer.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1358910457256439808?s=20 …

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      “nowness” isn’t about passive acceptance but active steering. most of the time we *know* how to balance situations but are stuck replaying an injustice in the mind, and oversteering to compensate.
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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 12

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      deontology is brainwashinghttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1359515502582763520?s=20 …

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      this is why the majority hates defectors. at the same time they’re saying “that idiot’s gonna fail” they fear being shown up. if everyone is doing the same thing, this type of comparison isn’t possible. https://twitter.com/pwyowell/status/1359177343353442308 …
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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 12

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      adding stupid stuff to non-stupid stuff doesn't double the amount of stuff you have.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1359569915674415104?s=20 …

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      other similar domains include stock picking, spirituality, and relationships, psychology, child-rearing, cooking a steak, etc.... all the "Serious Important Stuff" needs to have twice the amount of knowledge as everything else. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1359214964611837953 …
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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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      "you" are what "you" want to get rid of!https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1360619309383360512?s=20 …

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      when getting rid of the chip on your shoulder, 1 way is to become the chip. after all, that gets rid of the shoulder... but another way is to realize that “you” ARE the chip. then it’s gone not b/c it’s destroyed but b/c u always know where it is and so will never trip on it.
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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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      the difference between anger and hate.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1361738443429011456?s=20 …

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      hate is not that dangerous of an emotion. it’s the all bark and no bite. it’s anger that’s dangerous. unlike hate which drives out other emotions, anger can be combined with cold calculation, poisoning your actions even while you think yourself rational & reasonable
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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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      attempting to apply coherence to thoughtshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1362796803343536130?s=20 …

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      my 'big idea' (for now) is something like "ignoring negativity is the root of all problems." it seems to be the primary reason for all of my 'disillusionments' around spirituality, rationality, philosophy, etc... https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1362677135291207680 …
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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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      all anger is self-righteoushttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1363149010538692609?s=20 …

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      “all anger is self-righteous anger.” rather than aim for something weird like the no-self of Eternal Bliss under the Light of the Divine try for something more practical. use the presence of anger to gauge ur location and heading
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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          gpt-2 tweetshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1363386913625841666?s=20 …

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          playing around with gpt-2 trained on my tweets: results: https://bit.ly/3pJcI5X  pic.twitter.com/kBKoWJ7O2I
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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          a relationship is constant mutual self-annihilationhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1363592804346195968?s=20 …

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          the basic terms of a relationship is that we agree to each sacrifice “I feel...” feelings for “We feel...” feelings.
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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          wall street hate is just shadow projectionhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1363742119458840576?s=20 …

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          here's why "wall street is greedy" can't solve the 'problem' because it is actually shadow projection:
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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          Quotes from The True Believerhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1364839144250241028?s=20 …

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          Selected quotes from The True Believer: (rec per @AbstractFairy)
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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          hyperinflation as pulling back in a dispersed mandate of heavenhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1364995118990643204?s=20 …

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          is hyperinflation basically a way to get people to work by eliminating savings? it forces everyone to go to the firehose for their marching orders.
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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          gpt-2 tweet, smaller modelhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1365360986673139717?s=20 …

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          results from using a smaller model: also stripped away retweets from the training data https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1363386913625841666 …
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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          is it an advantage to being susceptible to being taken advantage of?https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1365555688093618177?s=20 …

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          the question of who is being taken advantage of by who and how that playing field can be equalized can be made a lot more interesting by asking: is the ability to be taken advantage of an advantage in itself?
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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          cats vs dogshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1362454319702839304?s=20 …

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          cats do a breadth first search in new environments. dogs do depth first.
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        9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          seeing ugliness creates ugliness. seeing beauty creates beauty.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1366078222983520256?s=20 …

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          one of the costs of tying the good to the beautiful is that making someone feel bad becomes equivalent to making someone feel ugly. then they stop living. https://twitter.com/AbstractFairy/status/1366072631833858055 …
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        10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 1

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          oversimplifying economic theorieshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1366230285658980354?s=20 …

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          classical economics: nature is selfish austrian: hoomans aren’t animals, they have “feelings” keynesian: those feelings should be controlled
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        11.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

          ===== March 2021 =====

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        12.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          Quotes from The True Believerhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1366442921856094213?s=20 …

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          quotes from the second half of the book The True Believer by Eric Hoffer https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1364839144250241028 …
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        13.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          exponential inequality across time is a gap that can never be crossed by "you". only the latter generation.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1366808416186867712?s=20 …

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          this is a kind of inequality. when ppl have access to different growth rates, the gap becomes bigger and bigger over time. pic.twitter.com/xIQyNt9BSy
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        14.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          VCs are like mini-governments. money doesn't mean anything to them. it's just a means of coordinating and creating desired stable new forms of behavior.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1366999292825624577?s=20 …

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          that companies funded by VC money can be incestuous customers of each other (the same VC money just sloshes back and forth) may not actually be a ‘problem’
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        15.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          Wealth marshalling and unmarshallinghttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1367402361442816000?s=20 …

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          if you can control the attention long enough, it will eventually turn into wealth. likewise, wealth is the right to coordinate attention at any given moment. wealth and focused attention can transmute to and from each other w/ varying degrees of efficiency and loss.
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        16.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          an intuitive understanding of discounted cash flow valuation using idea of hope and faith.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1367863027303731205?s=20 …

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          the stock market is like the ego of an economy while the economy is the "true self" as a system grows, its value is the combination of both present value and expected future value. the ego is the inflated sense of self b/c it's taking future value & applying it to the present pic.twitter.com/JnValdfkad
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        17.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          i'm pretty sure spinoza was a postrat, not a rat...https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1368982355981991938?s=20 …

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          so apparently some hooman called spinoza already did this sorta kinda: https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1296736524327780354 …
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        18.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          'self' cannot hold anythinghttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1370415190404071428?s=20 …

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          a rainbow is created only when you notice it not because it renders into reality based on your attention but because colors such as red or blue are exist ONLY in consciousness. when it is outside consciousness, the spectral phenomenon exists but the rainbow does not
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        19.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          central banks as pumps. the flow of money supplying nutrients to where they are needed at the required metabolic rate is more important than then the money itself. the activity imbues the money with value. A https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1370816113139847170?s=20 … Bhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371352470216007710?s=20 …

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          a central bank is like a heart. its purpose is to quicken and slow down according to the needs of the body. an athlete's heart responds to activity needs faster and also has a lower base metabolism. a fatty has high blood pressure, anemia, or a tendency to heart attacks
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        20.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          main difference between china and us culturally is their concept of god. whether or not it is possible for someone to be "above some law" vs "above THE law"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1370927944458113025?s=20 …

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          chinese governance is likely far more rooted in chinese culture than communist ideology. communism was the equivalent of wokeness. a well known moral supremacy framework to mobilize the masses. the end result though always reflects the culture of those who end up in charge.
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        21.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          the half life of desirehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371503300726591488?s=20 …

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          consumption is the bottleneck of a modern economy’s economic flow. pay and desire control this demand. however, there’s now a third parameter:
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        22.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          the heroic (egoic) vision of self is like a market bubble.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371512789089480706?s=20 …

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          but its weakness is that you can crash. if your heroic vision of self becomes too out of hand, the entire vision pops and collapses and enter a depressive spiral. you psychological credit score is too low and ur brain won’t allow you to project heroic visions anymore
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        23.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          a market crash is similar to the long period of loneliness after a separation. the story pops and the price freefalls until saved by someone who *does* see value.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371958828166565889?s=20 …

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          many people stay in relationships the same way market bubble crashes work. when the price of a stock "crashes" its heroic story pops and it goes into free-fall until someone shouts "I SEE YOU & I LOVE YOU" and buys, thus catching the fall. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371512789089480706 …
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        24.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          anthony de mello quotes A https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372082964033544194?s=20 … Bhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372213543177580547?s=20 …

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          Part II https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372082964033544194 …
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        25.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          "i am meow"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372265445395292160?s=20 …

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          there is an ancient saying amongst my people: “i am meow, i am meow, i am meow.” roughly translated it says “two cats cannot give each other hand jobs”
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        26.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          america is like the avengers except they refuse to assemblehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372449494134976516?s=20 …

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          the biggest us export is its companies. but these companies are so private that they don't contribute to the power of the central governing entity (http://www.obela.org/system/files/GVC%20US%20missing%20exports.pdf …) pic.twitter.com/nhE2hut7Wf
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        27.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          RNA as reactive information, like the distribution of money and cashflows.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372584553689149440?s=20 …

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          capital is lik DNA, inert. money is like RNA, a representative of DNA encoding the same information that can act as a catalyst producing real world effects. factories and stuff are like proteins. they do the 'real' work. but everything is coordinated by DNA/RNA
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        28.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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          summary of "Act of Creation"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372611866887819269?s=20 …

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          don't want to oversimplify koestler's book act of creation too much but 'ideas can date and have sex' seems to cover it. https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/20/arthur-koestler-creativity-bisociation/#posts:~:text=term%20bisociation …
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        29.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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          seeing "victims" in authoritarian states is a self-serving narrative. most common side-effect is toppling a tyrant to be replaced with an inept tyrant. (conveniently, the ineptitude can be taken advantage of)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1373642788227616768?s=20 …

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          unlike commonly held belief, authoritarian systems are not composed of sheep capstoned by a minority of tyrants. it's a recursive structure of repressed resentment as everyone waits their turn to BE the tyrant
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        30.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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          rationalism is a tool, not a moral philosophyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1374047857703940096?s=20 …

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          rationality as a core virtue is problematic b/c it requires calculation. a finished calculation isn't possible except for toy problems or stripping the world into caricatures. rationality thus requires analysis which is correlated with IQ which is 'unevenly distributed'
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