A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning — new Melting Asphalt post meltingasphalt.com/a-nihilists-gu
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anything stick out at you as something I got subtly (or grossly) wrong?
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no - but I've only read it once, one of those "too close to my own thoughts to see clearly" perhaps
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I like your extension of the pointing thing and network effects, great examples - and space/Mars is SO important
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yeah. I had a section on aggregate meaning (by analogy with GDP) but it didn't make the cut. Space exploration adds so much
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thinking about this - people sometimes go offline for long periods and nothing changes
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sometimes there's a lot of expression of missing like The Last Psychiatrist and but usually others don't notice
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you have to constantly remind people you exist - and if they DO notice, there's no way to easily express it
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services send pleading emails but I'm surprised no service has figured out to remind active users that absent users still exist
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Nihilist National Park: take only nothing, leave only nothing


