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Apologies for the discourse but I think it's worth sayingidk, I felt *more* sadness and compassion for sbf on reading this https://t.co/5Iz7fhsR1i https://t.co/eFENWnLXqs
@not_a_hot_girl ah fuck, yeah I wanna shake him at age 21 and be like, "man you've got IYHS: In Your Head Syndrome. it's not fatal but it'll make you super sad and cause you to do a lot of dumb shit. you probably think I sound like 'every normie' but I've been there, and there is another way"
@not_a_hot_girl like QC said, it feels unbelievably crass to bring it up, but people like SBF spent years gaining power and making their pain other people's problem, and the stakes are high and repeated enough, i want to bring up The Post— https://t.co/fzTH1Y1szl https://t.co/7pnDTd5Xhy
it feels unbelievably crass to bring this up and ask people to connect the dots here between this and, y'know, the cryonics, and all the other fucking raving lunacy that came out of the sequences, but eliezer spent a decade making his pain everyone else's problem so here we are
@not_a_hot_girl here's elizabeth holmes, though it only gets at a slice of it https://t.co/3Dp2KlBe5T https://t.co/JumOy82rX8
@not_a_hot_girl maybe in a few years, there'll be some similarly heartbreaking thing for sama https://t.co/i3XUW1iNUA https://t.co/4Blt30b6AY
@not_a_hot_girl they're not worse than high-functioning sociopathic corporate leaders or the koch brothers. certainly, they try to orient to be good. their actions are downstream of some professed intellectual concern for humanity. but it isn't about them being good or bad as individuals
@not_a_hot_girl it isn't about them being good or bad as individuals, or their intentions it's about do they fit into the ecology of humanity in a way that won't completely ruin it, that can be trusted, they doesn't come with long shadows, carelessly woven into their utilitarian framework
@not_a_hot_girl it's about green. a healthy mutual respect, attunement, and trustworthiness https://t.co/6NF2YVWcLB
@not_a_hot_girl >This daring attempt at Life 2.0 does not in general come from masters of Life 1.0 https://t.co/u42kEhoN4b
@not_a_hot_girl consequently, the vibe is disembodiment, control, and being very firmly under their thumb. because they know best, and the weight of their thumb carries not only the infinite pain they carry inside, but the infinite pain of all future unborn beings https://t.co/zGphTwv88R
@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