Here’s a relevant LessWrong post for those who are interested.
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Favorite Non-Fiction: The Tao Te Ching Impro The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber Finite and Infinite Games The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell Answer to Job by Carl Jung The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by... I love it. This is a good framing on it and I will remember it. The only tricky part for me is saying "this isn’t a problem just like a baby isn’t a problem" because of all the people that are suffering tremendously. To them it is a problem.... thanks. I’m leaning into disagreement here, partially for my personal growth (I’m so agreeable!) but partially to give us more data. Something about saying they’re suffering tremendously and therefore calling "unconscious self-organization" a problem feels like re-introducing... - b_b...
Yes, thank you, i think what you’ve said about the medium term really highlights where I feel most unclear. Here’s one brush at it • In the super short term (decades?), from a totally egocentric POV, it doesn’t matter what we do.... overall my aesthetic aligns with this. Especially when it comes to politics! but for the sake of testing hypotheses, I’m trying to think of what information is lost when we drop the brand. An example that comes to mind is talking about religion.... We’re already doing this, to a large extent. Drawing on our own principles for what’s right/good and not caving to external pressure. But when we are obviously thriving, it’s much more clear that there’s something "right" about what we’re doing even though it goes against the... Open heart to their suffering, wanting to love them in that, and the suffering about suffering. Something about wanting to separate compassion for the 1st person experience from 3rd person truth claims maybe?...