Excellent thread on the relationship between different ways of attending & knowing, four-leaf clovers, tarot, & how those interplay with materialism. And hemispheres of course 😉🧠 twitter.com/selentelechia/…
Ways of knowing, magic, and losing the muse to rationality
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This tweet and the next one I'll quote resonate with some of my experience of getting involved with the rationality community. twitter.com/selentelechia/…
I used to write a lot of songs, and my muse started showing up less in 2013 when I was diving deep into CFAR & LessWrong. twitter.com/selentelechia/…
I still managed to write a few beautiful pieces that year, among them this one that is in part inspired by my experiences in the bay area & rationality community. youtube.com/watch?v=VkJe3W…
Here's a thread by me that talks a bit about integrating goal-orientedness and effective magic.
This is a vital piece to keep in mind with all of this. There's truth in almost every perspective; the challenge is understanding the limits of how that truth generalizes, where it's applicable, and what it means. twitter.com/selentelechia/…
If you want a physical analogy for that, check out this thread which explores unifying disagreeing perspectives through the lens of, well, literal perspectives of the literal lenses of your eyes!
