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raised in stem, stretching out into myth, meditation & meanings. keen for conversation.

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    1. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan Sep 24
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      The problem with being powered by hope is that you can't look at things that you sense would cause you to lose hope. The hope becomes intertwined with a fear of losing hope. You get addicted to it and it distorts your behavior. I hurt someone I cared deeply about this way.
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    2. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan Sep 24
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      It took the almost complete dissolution of my most important group of friends for me to begin to understand that hope wasn't the answer any more than fear. That, in fact, there was nothing I could do that would make it all okay.

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    3. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan Sep 24
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      I have been slowly losing hope over the last year, and I want to be very clear that I think this is progress. I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to do the things I want to do in the world without risking hurting people. I don't know, yet, how to act without hope.

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    4. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan Sep 24
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      What I do know is that there is something I care about, and that something matters.

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    5. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan Sep 24
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      I'm gonna spend a decent chunk of the day trying to say nice things to strangers on Kind Words if anyone would like to join me:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070710/Kind_Words_lo_fi_chill_beats_to_write_to/ …

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    6. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan Oct 3
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      Commentary on this thread from my friend and mentor Pete Michaud on Facebook, re: emotional capacity, reproduced with permission: https://www.facebook.com/qiaochu/posts/10156289323935811?comment_id=10156303178865811 …pic.twitter.com/W4nC7Hq96Y

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    7. Jacob Falkovich‏ @yashkaf Oct 3
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      Very interesting! But how would you measure the "bigness" of emotions if not by contrast to the strength of your system 2, willpower, etc?

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    8. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan Oct 3
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      i'm not sure, but one idea is to look at the strength of the physiological response, e.g. increased heart rate, changes in body temperature, shaking, etc.

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    9. nick‏ @brownian19 Oct 3
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      seems to me different people could have the same physiological response at various disaster scales. toddler breaks a toy, failed a class, got dumped, lost your job. Their physiology reads the same but the size of emotion they're holding differs vastly.

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    10. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan Oct 3
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      Replying to @brownian19 @yashkaf

      what do you mean by "size of emotion" here if not the physiological response?

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      Replying to @QiaochuYuan @yashkaf

      ah, I mean the "complexity of the situation" they're holding.

      8:34 PM - 3 Oct 2019
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        1. Sarah McManus‏ @SarahAMcManus Oct 3
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          Replying to @brownian19 @QiaochuYuan @yashkaf

          Seems also that "bigness" could have multiple meanings here: - Bigness relative to the whole scope of an individual's life experience - Bigness relative to the wider context of human experiences in historical memory

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        2. Sarah McManus‏ @SarahAMcManus Oct 3
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          Replying to @SarahAMcManus @brownian19 and

          Those two are related to perspective, and then there's also bigness in comparison to one's capacity to hold the experience of emotion

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