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i've decided to make a thread of the invisibly abnormal/hungry ghost energy of bay area there's a lot of good/yes too, but i need to be able to discern the bad as such to say no to them https://t.co/tIvaFblUuG
a solid chunk of people, men mostly, talk like this. they hide behind their recitation of facts, hoping you won't notice, as they don't notice, they're not doing something smart what they're doing is not enviable or something to emulate https://t.co/sYDaLWAZXO
it's sympathetic that they don't have the emotional capacity to speak as if they were a person in a body what's insidious and sad is the notion what they're doing is Smart and anything else would be Dumb and the "they know everything" field they sometimes project
"everything grows like crazy here. including the weeds" https://t.co/TKT35m5gIX
some places have less of an ozone layer. you're more exposed to the sometimes brutal cosmic radiation. the bay area is like that lots of interesting people with mutations walking around. lots of ghosts following them right behind. a dystopian/utopian place https://t.co/kNTIXwppHe
on making friends https://t.co/IWWU5hStWP
bay area parties https://t.co/QDpzrq8KcQ
- hyperfixation on optionality - inability to have peak or vibrant experiences without distorting them back into market or self-advertising relations https://t.co/g9uFEyGtrV
here, in the bay area, i feel old, evil calls: the call to evaluate each moment against everything else i could be doing with that moment the call to evaluate each experience, each departure from dead normalcy and contact with eros, and make use it somehow
a personal diary of experiences https://t.co/bh15rauWWO
"the bay area is the place where people build Human Instrumentality Projects" https://t.co/TQmTSCqumW https://t.co/om2z4HIVUn
this place has a different message. it says "if you’re not legible to the system, you don’t exist" it says, "we need to build the moonbot now. we need to build AGI now. we need to build the end of suffering now." one more jhana, one more IFS technique, one more— https://t.co/5P2J44iWdu
the pretty-dressed hungry-for-status-and-belonging people of New Age spirituality https://t.co/k4lULOFzDG
"the scientist will sell their soul to the machine if it will give them a new one, because they never learned to love this one" https://t.co/pQtVLZAsU9
the "healing coaches" https://t.co/xspliEq2I0
"their words are 80mph away from their body" https://t.co/RcY1R9cBsX
sometimes i see people talking about things im supposedly also into but it just kind of makes me feel gross, sick, and unmotivated to be around them 🥴 ("metamodern spirituality") other people, they talk about the same things, and i feel held, humbled, inspired (The Emerald)
conversations about people aren't conversations about people here https://t.co/r8CDJ5i78s
in warm, people-centric cultures, conversations about people are about people. (some) bay area people think conversations about people are about anything other than people — they treat each conversation like it's some symbol of a conversation to then analyse
>i just feel so damn heady. their words are 80mph away from their being https://t.co/u1Z6RFK5tH
on people whose insides are screaming with pain while they tell you about all this good (yudkowsky, SBF, sama, elizabeth holmes) https://t.co/I9O0QUabLH
@not_a_hot_girl if you look at smn and somthng in you whispers "somthng in the middle of them is screaming", you might be onto somthng. you might be onto the invisible driver behind all of this person's otherwise cheerful, often helpful, but at the end of day, ruthlessly power oriented life
on the students and university "trying to do good" https://t.co/ytrfvEj130
it gets a little sobering to read other people's account of the same extended social network and its various dynamics https://t.co/1VBs2y29ZN
this tweet is basically accurate to what it's like in the extended bay area social network i found myself down to the diagnosing people in random google docs, the degree of "open-minded community house members" having some of the most fucked up social dynamics ive ever seen https://t.co/u25PiIXSWy
