Conversation

Replying to and
Normies are the only ones who are actually prepared to hear it ime. All subcultural types (including billionaire immortalists) are in some sort of denial bubble or the other, aestheticizing their mortality-salient cognitions with some pretty reification or the other.
1
5
Replying to and
Subnormies read heidegger, normies try to figure out how to game taxes on their 401k and transfer property to kids in the sneakiest way possible. Revealed preference suggests the latter are in less denial about death.
4
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
Replying to and
it's only invalid if you think somehow extreme depressive angst or existential nausea is in some way a more "authentic" response... it is certainly an interesting response, arguably more interesting than dull estate planning, but I am not convinced it is more authentic
1
1
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
Replying to and
Neither is determinative, but I argue that mortality is a necessary part of the explanation. You have to time such actions, and the timing reveals shifts in your mortality orientation. Kinda like suddenly getting into religion late in life does.
1
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
Replying to and
Yeah and I find that interesting actually. For example, pacific octopus basically crawls into a hole and starves to death like Jains after it reproduces. The associated "inner life" in the human version is less interesting to me than the basic phenomenology of the behavior.