July 30th, 2025
- #2tweet in this era, metta meditations would benefit from an additional step after "person you find difficult", where you send well-wishes to someone who you hate or who you feel hates you—who is against everything you stand for (who you may not know personally)
- in this era, metta meditations would benefit from an additional step after "person you find difficult", where you send well-wishes to someone who you hate or who you feel hates you—who is against everything you stand for (who you may not know personally)
- maybe with a caveat that that you may yet wish for their ideology to self-destruct. but towards the person, you
- (aside: I am confused about the extent to which memeplexes, egregores, etc, ought to have anything resembling moral patienthood. seems plausible that somewhat/somehow/sometimes? but this way of asking the question is probably itself confused)!
- #2tweet faith is for converging on a self-stabilizing view. the same way that it is an error to try to believe a falsehood, it is an error to try to stabilize your faith on a view that does not self-stabilizing.
- faith is for converging on a self-stabilizing view. the same way that it is an error to try to believe a falsehood, it is an error to try to stabilize your faith on a view that does not self-stabilizing.
- (or maybe just text something about this to MS first. might not be baked enough to tweet it)