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obtusely complimenting people https://t.co/537eFQ89UA
current models of fear (compiled from personal experience, second hand internal family systems, CFAR lectures with Val, and The Fear Book) fear is a red herring because fear is a tag team, and the fear you interface with on a felt sense is the floating green head https://t.co/C4U65mjoN2
You cannot both name and know the tao https://t.co/BlKVsj7Hdq
fuck plato, AND cosmic rays https://t.co/S4MnyOlVGn
Understanding how and why people will misunderstand you https://t.co/ZNNdZKsWLP
lol, ^above tweet has wrong link Understanding how and why people will misunderstand you is this 🙃 https://t.co/SyVUIye9vi
this needs more exploration vibe is a huge part. you're always filling in the infinite gaps in someone's content with what you perceive their vibe to be. when you're new to a domain/text/culture you've only got coarse stereotypes to guide you https://t.co/FQQhtSleNW
"consciousness awareness is your metaphor based map of your mind being synced across the rest of your brain via the global workspace" https://t.co/5iJId3xgl6
the most interesting idea for me from Julian Jaynes so far is consciousness being a metaphor where the outside world is used as an analog to represent the workings of the mind. (Jaynes is looking more at reflective aspect of C, qualia isn't a big target for him)
Having a light touch https://t.co/gSKQ3oOq5R
How certain framings of commitment and goal-orientedness are rooted in social control mechanisms, and not what will help you the most https://t.co/uI2FuPkafz
musings on compassionate strength and discipline without self harm https://t.co/bzPvIw8X7o
words as actions, why this is to be expected https://t.co/wZjn3c5hfI
the particular cocktail of memes and experiences that lead me to existential emptiness, missing the second half of the story for how I got out of it https://t.co/zZj0AYgOWQ
more precision: less "ahhh no free will!" and more "aaaahhh I can see nothing in myself of others that is meaningful and valuable, just a bunch of mechs habituated to respond to social scripts" i will describe how this came together https://t.co/9oSnAzMRRI
how judgement and shoulds corrupt doubt and make it destructive instead of illuminating https://t.co/QFD4VOVz7Z
The corruption of reason for social control and normative conflict https://t.co/5eHUULQBAH
this is deeply true, inspecting the common knee-jerk responses/dismissals to this idea sheds light on how deeply society is willing to gaslight you if there's a chance it will make you more controllable this is part of why i want 👏more 👏 normative 👏 conflict 👏 https://t.co/FnmP8vOLYm
Different types of doubt, the flavor of gaslighting that attacks how you think others will see you, and whether or not The Last Psychiatrist is right for you https://t.co/IFthzCEYdt
introspection thread on the dynamic of "trying to never be a part of a group that's coherent enough for most people to know about, because then they could form opinions of the group and then form opinions about me" and how that isolates me https://t.co/ifCxKszTzv
looking at what ends different concepts and memes are best suited for, through the lens of the phrase "toxic masculinity" https://t.co/QrU7cRFNgh
thread on the background emotions and frames that shape of i react/interact with "the discourse" and culture war stuff https://t.co/vBxKUrUKw2
collecting pipelines https://t.co/wYHv90MGq1
me giving tl;drs on long form I've written https://t.co/3v21q8Vuev
the 1984 Newspeak hypothesis is that if you control the language you control the minds take away the right words and the corresponding thought crime simply can't be had in the first place it's on to an important idea, but is TOTALLY wrong about the mechanism
Snapshot of the motifs that are guiding me as of Jan 2022 https://t.co/C6PKk86gjs
ways people ignore important distinctions in intentionality, adversarial, malice, good/bad faith etc https://t.co/wH6KU06p4O
What the end game of "dissolving the illusory boundary between what feels right and what is good for me" looks like https://t.co/fnwweYY5UB
most concrete example I have of using little nudges in what i pay attention to leading to easy no-will-power behavior change: i used to consistently overeat. because of lucky metabolism stuff it was never a health problem, but i'd reliably feel bloated and bleh after meals
outlining a bunch of different kinds of "thinking" people usually don't bother to differentiate between https://t.co/chf2Stfmzj
people use the word "thinking" to refer to dozens of unique mental processes and generally don't seem to notice or care that others in a convo aren't on the same page this drives me crazy, imma list out a bunch of specific things that i've seen this word deference to
the life changing magic of talking to people about what you want https://t.co/6s4m7S9p9W
ridiculously amazing stuff can come from being able to talk clearly about you want and what you care about this is true at all scales. from being able to talk about what you want for dinner, ways you do and don't like being treated, up to sharing life vision and deep values
thoughts on what it beens to "LARP being a person", and a bit about the way we metaphorically use "LARPing" is importantly different from dynamics in actual Live Action RolePlay (LARPing) https://t.co/di1LD3MXVE
@default_dad @powerbottomdad1 @nosilverv it's about having a persistent background sense, that frequently pokes into consciousness, of how things *should* be. Not just some things, like I'm making a chair and go "should this board be warped?" but a more totalizing sense of what A Life and Being A Person is like that/
on swallowing contradictions, drains that creates on the mind, and how to get out of them https://t.co/EO4V1IyeRy
A big part of what integration like work for me has looked like is finding the ways in which I've "swallowed a contradiction" the problem with totalizing mandates is that they are often accepted without regard to the rest of your psychic landscape https://t.co/a2lgIvvxy7
describing how immersion in hypocritical disintegrative environments ties knots in people https://t.co/EFZVD7NwhI
there's lots of memes that try and turn people evil with a message of "there's no such thing as virtue, there is only vice" these memes are aided by the massive amounts of hypocrisy that exists. there's no shortage of people doing gnarly shit while trying to look virtuous
narrative of what it feels like to be "made autistic" https://t.co/9p2qbH02KC
explicating the things called "reasons" that are a necessary part of any potential cooperation (within self or between selves) and the things called "reasons" which are authoritarian power grabs https://t.co/hLKCO87JIc
when diff bundles of intentions (tween ppl or within a person) are bidding to move some lever in diff directions, those bundles can express their teleology in a mutually understandable way to allow for the discovery of win-win actions these expressions are called "reasons" https://t.co/SjG79n0S8M
brief details on how mistake theorists end up committing themselves to not perceiving conflict clearly https://t.co/5isOeeHAQT
how mistake theorists undermine themselves 1. correctly (explicitly) notice that scapegoating doesn't fix things 2. correctly (implicitly) notice that ambient conflict theory waters mean any open discussions of bad behavior will be socially redefined into calls for scapegoating https://t.co/BZH23BiS41
sketching out the "assault on the alphabet" post for the Open History of American Edu project tl;dr 100 years ago in the us it became mainstream to not teach kids the alphabet while trying to teach them to read. this is as bad an idea as it seems and literacy has suffered for it