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That is not a bad quota for someone who thinks a lot. I suspect that you focus on being a publicist more than on being a philosopher?
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I noticed that I prize meaning over relevance. Relevance is backed up by the promise of an actual, material reward. Since I don't seem to see the value of actual rewards (why should I strive for them?), I appear to need a transcendental, terminal reward anticipation.
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From my perspective, your thinking often appears to stop two steps before the actual summit, and then take off in a different direction. That does not mean that this is objectively true, but perhaps that I measure the height of the reward landscape differently.
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It is empirically accurate, modulo a sort of optical illusion that doesn’t matter, and a bit of projection, which is 10x better than most people ever understand anyone. You’d be able to predict my actions pretty well with that model. Probably only need a small shell script 😆
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Oh, no! That was not an understanding of how you operate, only a characterization of the observation, which results from projecting your actions on my own surface. I don't yet see WHY you seem to stop and deviate, for which I possibly need a meta-perspective.
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A simple hypothesis for what you are doing would be that a publicist does not depend on getting things right in the face of the immortals because the immortals are dead and don't buy you lunch. A publicist needs to be tightly constrained to the currently dominant discourse.
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Are you worried about lunch? (I don't mean to ask: are you justified in doing so? I just want to know how much that motivates you.)