Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The stoics absolutely sucked at rationality. Read any of their works. They were barely concerned with it at all

which isn't really an indictment of them, btw. They were literally just trying to get themselves and other people to put the cart before the horse under conditions of extreme uncertainty. But jesus, they took pride in watching their children die without flinching

It feels like this thread has started to devolve.

Why, because this suddenly sounds much more biographic and less textbook?

I love you guys for trying to warp yourselves properly, but every human being who's ever lived before you was also a human being, and not in any real sense any better than you

I mean that there's no real way to answer that question, because their constraints and knowledge environment aren't yours. I've never felt uncomfortable in a room because of what I like or am, and as a result I've somehow made owning a fuckton of moths cool. Take it as you like