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  1. Pinned Tweet
    26 Apr 2019

    Let perish the memes which tell people that they must experience psychological distress in order to be good.

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  2. 28 Dec 2019

    The doors of perception cannot be cleansed!

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  3. 16 Dec 2019

    (In my mind, my moral system is heavily inspired by this Crowley passage. "The universe is the practical joke of the general at the expense of the particular." )

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  4. 16 Dec 2019

    My moral system says you are allowed to fight wars. To defend yourself and your people against invaders, not because your people are better, but because they're *yours*. But it says that if you do fight, you should do so honorably.

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  5. 16 Dec 2019

    The way that it affects behavior is to teach: if you have to hurt someone or something, try to do it honorably. If you have to kill an animal for food, don't draw out its suffering (and also, raise it in humane conditions).

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  6. 16 Dec 2019

    It is a moral system built on empathy and understanding, and also an acceptance that pain is part of the nature of life. It is not a moral system that is built on judgment or guilt or punishment.

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  7. 16 Dec 2019

    My moral system encourages people to become strong enough to encompass all these perspectives. To hold within themselves their own perspective, and the perspective of the animals they eat, and the perspective of whatever will eat them.

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  8. 16 Dec 2019

    But only those who are very strong, and very emotionally stable, can do this without being brought down by it. My moral system says that, if you are not strong enough, then you shouldn't try this kind of reflection. The point is not to wallow in guilt but to expand oneself.

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  9. 16 Dec 2019

    My moral system also encourages people to dwell in the perspectives of whoever/whatever is hurt by their actions. Do you eat meat? Then spend time dwelling in the lives of the animals that died to be your food.

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  10. 16 Dec 2019

    This whole thread is a decent summary of my moral philosophy, which basically amounts to "There is no way to live without causing suffering, so instead, try to recognize when the suffering is necessary and when it isn't, and balance your needs with those of others."

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  11. 10 Dec 2019

    Unrelated to anything, but I hate the phrase "self care" because it takes ordinary, healthy rest and relaxation and medicalizes it.

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  12. Retweeted
    7 Nov 2019

    Tell me, why do you weep and grieve so sorely when you hear the fate of the Argives, hear the fall of Troy? That is the gods’ work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come. (Alcinous, The Odyssey)

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  13. 27 Oct 2019

    Thinking about "We are civilized because we practice many rituals and customs; barbarians lack rituals and just do what they feel like" vs. "We are civilized because we *don't* practice many rituals".

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  14. 6 Oct 2019

    (To be clear I think vaccines are great. Just trying to understand why anti-vaxxing is a popular viewpoint.)

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  15. 6 Oct 2019

    It would be like if you could prevent heart attacks by letting a special medical spider bite you once a year. The spider is gigantic and has yellow and black stripes, and you get a big sore welt around the bite every year. But hey, the doctors know best.

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  16. 6 Oct 2019

    Hypothesis: one reason that the anti-vax viewpoint is so popular is because injections are a viscerally terrifying thing. People have fears/phobias about injections, and those fears provide a really strong prior of "actually this thing is bad".

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  17. Retweeted
    3 Oct 2019

    The claim that religious kids are less generous made news everywhere. The update that this was a (pretty embarrassing) coding error did not.

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  18. 15 Sep 2019

    To what extent is correlation between musical style and lyrics just a historical accident, and to what extent is it determined by crossmodal correspondences?

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  19. 30 Aug 2019

    The idea of "continuity of self" is part of the human conceptual system, not part of the actual physical world (map, not territory). As with many concepts that are core to human experience, it works great under normal circumstances but breaks down under edge cases like this one.

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  20. Retweeted

    "Handy" people are more scientific than non-"handy" people. They believe in physics at a deep level, so they can reason about physical objects without relying on user interfaces. Everything is made of raw materials; everything can be repurposed.

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