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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 29 Jul 2017
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      34/ So why does this drive exist? There are four broad theories to consider: Disease/pathology, Darwinian, Jungian, and Buddhist.

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      35/ Disease/pathology theory would treat desire to cause pain as a potentially fixable condition due to genetics/chemicals/lead for eg

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      36/ Darwinian theory would take the other extreme, point to cats torturing mice, and say desire to cause pain is completely normal, adaptive

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      37/ In between we have Jung, which would be some obscure thing about sadism being really about torturing your own shadow, a kind of growth

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      38/ And finally, the Buddhist version, which is kinda similar to Jung in spirit. You'd say desire is the root of all pain

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      39/ My assessment: pathology theory is only true for tiny fraction of spectrum of pleasure-from-pain behaviors

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      40/ The Darwinian explanation is null hypothesis that I think explains the majority of cases. This is "normal" adaptive pleasure-from-pain

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      41/ The Jungian explanation probably covers most of what we could consider consensual S&M relationships and many martial arts

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      42/ And finally, Buddhist explanation I think only explains mutants who *don't* want to cause pain and uncomplicatedly seek to avoid it

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      43/ There are subtleties. For eg, the story of Angulimala, a sadist serial-killing thug who converted to Buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angulimala 

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      44/ But such exceptions aside, I think Buddhism is a pain philosophy for natural-borns who actually don't feel the desire pain asexuals

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Jul 2017
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          45/ Part 1 of my tweetstorm could be called "The civilizational project of/for/by natural-born Buddhists is misguided."

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          46/ Let's talk prescriptions. The prescription for the Darwinian explanation is: do nothing, we like it this way even if we don't admit it.

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