awww buddy I have some thoughts first one: did you read comment 171 when it came out in 2014? https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ShoesSensible and
Nope. I am trying now, but... well I am trying.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @eigenrobot and
It reminds me of Scott Alexander I suppose, in that it has a similar scared-of-itself fairy tale quality where eventually by aid of unseen forces the protagonist becomes a real boy, and celebrates having held back the tide of hate. I’d have seen more of myself in it 10 years ago.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @ShoesSensible and
what's the difference between you, then?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ShoesSensible and
There’s biographical things like my not really being a nerd per se, being older without the happy ending, etc. but the core of it is that where he views gaining self-confidence as a path up and out, I’ve learned that having self-confidence means just that, and nothing more.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @eigenrobot and
I know that I have value, that I’m perceptive, quick, and kind, and that I strive with each day to live honorably. I always have. But I also know that none of that means that anyone else will, or even should, value me; those are goods in themselves, not guarantees of good favor.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @eigenrobot and
He perceives there as being a natural linkage between self-confidence and the way the world perceives him. That’s logical; but it doesn’t hold for everyone. Some of us earned our self-confidence in the face of the knowledge that having it could only ever matter to us.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @eigenrobot and
As I said somewhere above: I insist on speaking the truth as I see it. Against anyone, against anything, in the teeth of opposition, at cost if need be. Self-confidence to me is not talking to women; it is simply in remaining true, when there is no other reason than that alone.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @ShoesSensible and
it maybe seems a bit like you've decided that you can't be happypic.twitter.com/VZ4Lz8qp4r
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Replying to @eigenrobot @TheAgeofShoddy and
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anyway people have to save themselves but thats my bead on you I think you should tell a new story
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