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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

i have a niggling feeling "moloch" as described in that famous scott alexander article isn't really real in that sense, it's an apparition. a disconnection from reality

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12/25/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Collecting a series of essays & screenshots to support #1: Moral Mazes sequence by Zvi https://t.co/Qv2yLadjvi https://t.co/7SfEKgr9lQ

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12/25/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

#2: Moloch Hasn't Won, also by Zvi https://t.co/8bgyjFcMTl https://t.co/EMa4cbaYjD

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12/25/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

#3: Studies on Slack, by Scott Alexander https://t.co/5FXHMIN7UI https://t.co/tFYwkUdN9r

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12/25/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

#4 Foragers, by Robin Hanson https://t.co/5SKzt7o429 https://t.co/CYKIzBz5ET https://t.co/uHNfQV3rgB https://t.co/IYx4ICv8kt https://t.co/IyOzm9KozS

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12/25/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

. . . okay, not finding what i want really. i need to write it myself from the pov of someone of the world herself, not a mystic, nor skeptic

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12/25/2023

Elena Lake 🌿@relic_radiation• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth yes please

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12/25/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @relic_radiation

@relic_radiation original version of that tweet said, "i want to hear it from an animist, not a mystic or a skeptic"

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12/26/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

oooooo @diviacaroline's thread is closer https://t.co/G3uHgzEZlN

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12/26/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

here's my current best attempt: "moloch" is an apparition. it's actually a trickster god, that makes you think it's been responsible for everything. it's the sense of doom itself, and it's a lie https://t.co/XrqItTocWf

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

@kcorazo that's already my frame, but my point is moloch is a trickster entity that makes you think it;s that wider mess of things, but it's not it's just the trickster apparition of the devil. it's not the devil

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Ra is DJing at Cascade Camp 9-12 to 9-15@slimepriestess• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth Moloch is made of people https://t.co/wVgvzxtXPF

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12/25/2023

Kahlil Corazo 🧭 Explorations.ph@kcorazo• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth they are less real than humans, but is it helpful to grant them agency and personality? i've changed my mind on this https://t.co/lWBGWffv2u https://t.co/sLw44xqsr9

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12/26/2023

Kahlil Corazo 🧭 Explorations.ph@kcorazo• over 1 year ago

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@AskYatharth yet i'll continue to use them as metaphors: animism just fits the human mind so well https://t.co/GeM5IkHC8Z

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12/26/2023

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago

Replying to @kcorazo

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Kahlil Corazo 🧭 Explorations.ph@kcorazo• over 1 year ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth i've been thinking about this as well, having used "satan" in the girardian sense my metaphysics is christian, & prob so is girard's, but as a scholar he seems to always speak at the level of the measurable: the evil meme (vs the supernatural being) https://t.co/moignzktz2

Kahlil Corazo 🧭 Explorations.ph@kcorazo• over 2 years ago

guys, i have solved the debates peace can now reign in the internet https://t.co/GsxyaPZd4b

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