(General method for dealing with people who announce they're super-concerned about abstract things that do not directly affect them -- hwhite genocide ed.):https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1011303772184809472 …
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
question I don't know the answer to: do people really have the psychological models operating unconsciously that we sometimes assume they do? it's so tempting to put together a coherent story about what they're really thinking. maybe they're just not thinking.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
if you're ruminating on distal and abstract concerns, what is the cause of that? is that actually knowable? how would you discover it if it can be discovered?
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Replying to @danlistensto
It depends. I'd periodically encountered existential crises, and come out a "new man" - one could say the "rumination" was the product of my old sense of self-identity losing coherence in the face of new data; or one could look at a biophysical level, etc. It's complicated!
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
have you read Seveneves (Stephenson 2015)? specifically the third and final section with the Moirans?
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Replying to @danlistensto
Nope! Quite like Stephenson but not even caught up to the level of Reamde. Damn him and his low-internet use, high-productivity lifestyle!
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
Reamde is terrible ignore it and burn any copies you own. Seveneves is good imo but he has not topped his career-best Anathem yet. anyway, so Moirans are a human descendant subspecies with insanely overactive epigenetics such that trauma triggers epigenetic reconfiguration.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
each life trauma will put a Moiran through what amounts to a highly compressed episode of puberty, where their body and mind are reshaped and strengthened in response. The Moiran cultural tradition is to number themselves according to how many epigenetic crises they've done.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
so 3 Dan would be recognized as fairly mature by 8 Claire would be a super-powered master.
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Replying to @danlistensto
Oh snap he's done it again, taken the aspie "must rank everything" tendency and applied it to a messy area like emotional maturity! Sounds good! [Anathem is far and away my favorite of his, too -- that scene where Fraa Jaad shows alternate future paths is $$$$.]
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the scene where he one-shots the password panel lock and just shrugs like "what? infinite other selves tried all the passwords that didn't work. I tried that one that does."
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