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13 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
@meditationstuff @reasonisfun I actually can't see it, and the Taoism thing in the other major thread-branch is my *sincere* attempt to steelman it:
@meditationstuff @reasonisfun If that is right, then either the Hegelianism hypothesis follows or I'm making a wrong inference.
@meditationstuff @reasonisfun Otherwise, it seems to me that either you ought to actually dismiss me as too stupid to engage with, or try to explain to me the other game (or point me to an explanation).
@meditationstuff @reasonisfun Both are legitimate responses!

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12 Nov
The history of "convictions" is interesting - as I understand it (please correct if wrong), Christians popularized it to refer to dogma about sin, meaning condemnations. Later expansion to mean any belief is consistent with the assumption that pinning things down is for blaming.
In German, Schuld means debt, blame, sin, fault. Like karma (which as far as I can tell literally means causality), something you want to be free of. When memory is for tax collection, only forgetting frees and all anticipation constraints are convictions.
The term "epistemic" shares a root with πίστις, meaning "belief" and generally rendered in translations of the Christian Bible as "faith."
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10 Nov
Brilliant comedic demonstration of why my Nei Gong practice for a year was "learning to stand without freaking out" before I advanced to "slowly step side to side," & why Feldenkrais builds so slowly up to "stand up from the ground":
Most meditation & yoga instruction is approximately this bad.
The bit where he "stabilizes" his legs with his arms is a perfect parody of the kind of developmental cope Feldenkrais describes in "The Potent Self."
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23 Aug
Ate a bunch of butter topped with raw honey and salt yesterday, and I feel just fine today. Increasingly impressed by @bulletproofexec, who seems to hold an unusual posture with respect to health that involves just orienting towards value, not picking sides.
Paleo / low-carb / carnivore cluster is biased towards hunter-gatherer autonomy, against agricultural norms and social control, macho, individualistic. Vegan / puritan / low-fat / Kellogg cluster ends up promoting rules that favor people with compliant metabolism.
Butter is very clearly an agricultural food, but has the desirable performance and health attributes that the *logic* of paleo/keto/carnivore points towards. Honey violates crude versions of this logic but empirically is just good. Noticing both as good requires equipoise.
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