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for balance heres the stoic version https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/if.html …
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i think the serious and explicit answer is to cultivate private virtue almost any lindy conception of virtue will probably suffice when I say it I think I try to mean: consider returning to an infinite game, ie playing for the sake of play rather than playing to win
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A "Lindy" conception of virtue is just an intersection of all human practiced ethical systems, which amounts to not much of anything, except "don't murder, but here is a fat stack of codices in case you need to rationalize some murder."
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pshaw cynic
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Rationalbot and
many people have thought long and hard about Becoming Good and came to many answers that are fairly similar in their drift i suppose the first step in becoming good is having the insight to avoid the dumb choices of virtues dont go skoptsy or w/e
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Rationalbot and
or maybe im just advocating a metavirtue: be thoughtful and reflective about your actions, words, and thoughts or maybe this is just socratic virtue sure, fine, whatever works
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Replying to @orthonormalist @eigenrobot and
(Or Plato was. Or both. But there isn't an option where neither Socrates nor Plato was a douche.)
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plato absolutely
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Rationalbot and
Socrates, as depicted by Plato, was king of 'And Then Everyone Clapped'.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @Rationalbot and
but weve already determined plato is not to be trusted
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