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if you want to solve for alignment in the world it might be worth first being internally aligned yourself https://t.co/J6CwjMZBh9
i don't mean this as a dunk or anything i mean like it's straightforwardly tragically true. being out of alignment with yourself is going to cause problems https://t.co/esBSSCIGgn
i believe there's a sort of paradox to it that requires a certain silliness, where trying too hard to align stuff will lead to you being the source of further misalignment. oogway: ~"a man often meets his destiny on the road he chooses to avoid it" https://t.co/3CcNgEEoQz
i do have a lot of sympathy for anybody trying to do big, difficult things, because that put a lot of pressure on you and amplifies the slightest failings. consider how small errors at high speeds can absolutely wreck an F1 racecar driven by an expert racer