I’ve been noticing some vibes/memes about “acknowledging unpleasant realities” I’d like to shoutout:
“sometimes things just suck”
“it is what it is”
“it is what it is-ing my way through the apocolypse”
“Serenity Prayer: grant me courage to change what I can, patience to endure what I can’t, wisdom to know the difference”
I think some forms of optimistic, hopeful, nihilism could be really successful.
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be skeptical of narratives that minimize human agency or suppress moral obligations
I feel narratives that minimize human agency are only slightly worse than those that maximize human agency. It’s part of why I’m so interested in talking about Outcome Influencing Systems (OISs) and how each human is an OIS embedded in a nesting and overlapping network of other OISs created through humans interaction with the natural world and each other. To me, this is the worldview I’ve found that most accurately represents that all humans have some influence but no human has unbounded influence. Though a machine someday may.
I’ve been noticing some vibes/memes about “acknowledging unpleasant realities” I’d like to shoutout:
“sometimes things just suck”
“it is what it is”
“it is what it is-ing my way through the apocolypse”
“Serenity Prayer: grant me courage to change what I can, patience to endure what I can’t, wisdom to know the difference”
I think some forms of optimistic, hopeful, nihilism could be really successful.
...
I feel narratives that minimize human agency are only slightly worse than those that maximize human agency. It’s part of why I’m so interested in talking about Outcome Influencing Systems (OISs) and how each human is an OIS embedded in a nesting and overlapping network of other OISs created through humans interaction with the natural world and each other. To me, this is the worldview I’ve found that most accurately represents that all humans have some influence but no human has unbounded influence. Though a machine someday may.