I think roon is right that it's not a desirable state of affairs, there is a reason we have dual experience. But still, it is the macrocosm of the cycle of death and rebirth. The end of another revolution of the wheel. Just like in Evangelion, what comes after is more of the same

"the borg" is inevitable imo. Not because of AI influence but because its the most straightforward way for the universe to arc towards the reawakening of God's consciousness. The borg, the apocalypse, the end of time are call describing the same phenomenom: full self realization

i dont hate the concept, i installed hyprland with ml4w because i didnt want to be bothered configuring a shit ton of stuff myself from scratch but the way people are jerking omarchy off really made it sound like something more than arch + hyprland with helper scripts

And that's *why* people deserve sympathy. Even if you think they're bad people, even if you think they're doing it to themselves. Epistemic humility demands we recognize the extent of our ignorance and morality demands that we err towards the good when we are ignorant

You might think you know but you simply don't. No amount of extrapolating from your personal experience could ever bridge the experiential gap between yourself and another person. You are talking about the sum of an entire life, not some stripped down archetype.

There are circumstances in everyone's lives which are out of their control. Some people have it worse and some of those people don't cope in a healthy fashion. None of this makes them undeserving of sympathy for one simple reason: you don't know how you would react in their shoes

The concept of who is at "fault" is extremely tricky if you take it seriously. Yes, ultimately no one else can take responsibility for an individuals actions, not everyone who experiences ACE abuses opioids, but the picture painted by population level statistics is clear:

One simple counter-example to this is that huge bodies of evidence show that children who experience ACE are more likely to abuse opioids by up to 15 times the rate of the general population. Presumably it's not controversial to say that children don't inflict ACEs on themselves

Ultimately this is not just a problem of "damaged men", masculinity itself is damaged. What we are observing is men struggling to replace vestigial norms with something new which society resists embracing. It is a burden we've inherited because society says we must.

has failed to fully embrace an alternative in all this time. Clinging to the old ways only looks like it works because of how long we pretended it did. That is not a solution either, that is burying your head in the sand and pretending the problem doesn't exist.

The model (as applied) has not made sense in a very long time. The way we allow it to totalize gendered behavior has been the source of unnecessary strife for almost as long as we have had agriculture. It's no wonder that people feel rootless and cling to old ways when society

Masculinity is essentially a set of otherwise arbitrary rules aimed at fostering virtues which are more readily embodied by men in service of overcoming natural selection effects that have long been conquered by civilization

https://t.co/amf5TskueU Scrolling through some QTs, was vaguely aware of psikey/mindenjoyer but did not make this connection. Also shared by someone I trust but cannot confirm personally. What a shame that such a person is taken seriously by anyone at all.

The full picture as I see it is that Mr. Ash doesn't really respect religious belief so much as appreciate it as a tool for control and considering his eagerness to abandon truth for "fitness" anyone should be deeply suspicious of his motivations

https://t.co/lZXtNWIjB6 Someone with more epistemic humility might recognize the necessity of reinterpretation in the process of finding any truth, let alone divine truths, but Mr. Ash seems preoccupied with himself and I wonder if his concept of truth might be warped in reality

Nevermind the branches of Christianity where reinterpretation is part-and-parcel of their faith like Protestantism - a whopping two thirds of all American Christians. Reinterpretation is *part* of the oldness of these religions.

https://t.co/Zq105v1Liy Unsurprising coming from someone with this take on religion. Rabbinic and Kabbalistic Judaism both include continuous reinterpretation as part of their traditions. Even orthodox religions like Catholicism include reinterpretation under church authority

The impetus for this observation is his belief that Christian doctrine makes you less fit because kindness towards your enemies is "evolutionary suicide". What he neglects is group selection effects, ideology is the thing that binds and allowed us to escape tribal organization

databases are just sparkling crud apps actually

im always torn between calling people like this unforgivably ignorant or calling them liars. kitten has certainly been around long enough to know better than this. the "tpot controlled government" that people cream their pants over is just nick land/curtis yarvin type thought ffs