You’re right, I wasn’t trying to sell enlightenment. It really doesn’t matter if I sell y’all on it. Promise.
I do think there’s something to Looking, though. And I think it’s interwoven into the core of a lot of rationality. And the failure to learn to Look, instead replacing it with a particular kind of intellectual activity that simulates some of the apparent effects of having Looked, seems to me to be one of the hulking reasons why the sense that more is possible is so hard to actualize.
Like, Scott Alexander’s latest analysis of Mastering The Core Teachings of the Buddha seems to have mostly ended with the verdict “enlightenment is real, but also maybe not particularly useful and I don’t think I can particularly recommend people to spend hundreds of hours on it”, which is roughly my current epistemic state as well.
You are in fact doing a beautiful job of being you. That’s very you. You make sense.
You’re right, I wasn’t trying to sell enlightenment. It really doesn’t matter if I sell y’all on it. Promise.
I do think there’s something to Looking, though. And I think it’s interwoven into the core of a lot of rationality. And the failure to learn to Look, instead replacing it with a particular kind of intellectual activity that simulates some of the apparent effects of having Looked, seems to me to be one of the hulking reasons why the sense that more is possible is so hard to actualize.
You are in fact doing a beautiful job of being you. That’s very you. You make sense.
And also, I’m laughing.
(In good faith. Promise.)