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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 26
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      People who are fully dependent on trusted others for critical needs (like a non-earning spouse or a parent or a grown child for elders) have a very relaxing energy when secure in trusted party’s presence. Unironically religious people have it too. Christians in particular.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 26
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      It’s the steady energy release of being able to let go and sink into a sort of cradle of active care (real or imagined). Passive things like a chair don’t allow you to let go enough. You have to know someone else will do the necessary caring to let go a care yourself.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 26
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          You can take the weight off your feet and sink into a chair, but only another human can do that for an active care on your mind. Or a sufficiently good AI. “Cares” are default policy goals like “don’t fall down” which a chair can take over.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 26
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          Good argument for literal belief in a personal caring god for cases where “caring” is futile anyway and getting a care off your mind but not actually covered is still a net plus due to improved energy field. “The lord will provide”. Not true but helpful to believe sometimes.

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 26
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          Achieving that “cared for” energy without actually being cared for seems like a good aspiration.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 26
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          The Secret is to trust the universe when it isn’t looking.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 26
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          Startup idea: worrybot. You lay down your cares and worries in a doc and hand it over, it worries about them for you. Not like being cared for, but being worried for is nearly as good. Empath mturking solutions acceptable.

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          Try to imagine an apocalypse as total trustlessnesshttps://twitter.com/mbadaily/status/865054056980635648?s=21 …

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          This guy is too much... (Dostoevsky,1868, pre- Soviet Union, Russia) pic.twitter.com/0GSb7Tu0NQ
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