Wonder how much of the “Nothing matters and I can’t care about anything” blues is a result of the (imo fake) idea that people should care about big vague important abstractions instead of real specific things
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Could you wonder a bunch more about it and then maybe figure out THE ANSWER and then I dunno, write about it or something? This has been a BIG MOOD for a lot of my life recently
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indexical therapy! (honestly I think that’s what a lot of late wittgenstein is)
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Specific things are actionable; vague abstractions are more porn-like.
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that’s a really interesting way to think of it - abstractions are cheap/undemanding fantasies
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are you subtweeting me
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I certainly am happier changing out the speakers in my old beater car than solving the world’s problems on this god damned website.
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same but for ridiculously intricate wool shawls
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near vs far mode
@robinhanson 2009ishThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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In the past, all things abstract = God and are accepted as unexplainable or explicable only by a leader; everything else is specific and local and survival-related. Now, both the micro and macro are seen as “specific” insofar as we know they affect us individually.
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This makes us feel responsible for coming up with solutions and enacting them personally. But most big ideas/problems are so complex that there are maybe 6 people alive who legitimately understand them, and so the act of trying to find solutions is unavoidably exhausting.
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