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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

[tldr: tpot’s big W was asking “who hurt you?”] philosophy’s blind eye was that is tried to build philosophies without investigating the stories behind why it was building them tpot excels at uncovering those

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

it is one thing to build an entire life around effective altruism, it is another to ask: how did you get there what happened https://t.co/hNw1aFIWDP

Tyler Alterman is in monkmode (but still tweeting)@TylerAlterman• over 3 years ago

Finally posted a critique of effective altruism that took me 6 months to write, “Effective altruism in the garden of ends”: https://t.co/Ot52uIqZpb

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

it is one thing to create an entire philosophy based around negative utilitarianism, it is another thing to ask: what happened what is your story https://t.co/WmVtjJvCDS

QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

"it may not be a happy story. the most precious story in their heart might be the darkest one, clotted with old blood. yet still it is precious to them, and through knowing it you might come closer to them and they to you. ask them."

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

to ask: who hurt you?

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

to ask “who hurt you” in a way that doesn’t invalidate the mountains of effort you built into making something better to ask in a way that says: i want to listen

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

“i want to listen to your story. and i will keep listening afterward too”

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

who hurt you, ayn rand? who hurt you, buddha? what do you have to say about the world? you are kinder for the pain you have experienced https://t.co/GwDRMS1TBD

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

People who know what pain is are kinder to other people because of it. It’s not the same thing as being weak.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

a story of pain is often used to invalidate the speaker. “they are just salty.” no. this is exactly wrong. they have experienced something, and now you must listen

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

tpot’s talent is in gently, inescapably asking “who hurt you?” until the answers shed light on the entire enterprise you built on the backs of not knowing the answer to that question you must know who hurt you. that’s how you make things better

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

this shit is hard. how far are you going to get without knowing the answers helping people is hard. welcome to the eternal crew https://t.co/thBxl2qOxq

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

the world has always been run on the backs of people who provide concrete care, not just love

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

kierkegaard and sartre and nietzsche would have been more honest if they investigated why they were there as it was, they have contributed enough

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

when you see shitposters on the tl, shitposters in rc, if they seem dark and corrupt a lot of the times it’s bc it is. life, reality, truth- whatever. making light of it is the thing you can do https://t.co/hlXPuskorv

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

you can be the comedian of your own life and laugh at every step. this makes you invincible, bc anything anyone could ever say, you have already invisibly acknowledged

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

lmao https://t.co/yC3uQS97Gr https://t.co/1HEQ5LGwlK

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