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7 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Thread, responding to @silencenbetween, on my current guesses about why an emphasis on virtue seems notably absent in our society, compared to my imagining / understanding of other societies in history.
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8 Mar
I hadn't realized this, but it seems like a crucial insight.

Systems incorporate the powerful effects of the things that they're exposed to, so that there are diminishing marginal returns to those powerful effects.

"Powerful" in this sense is relative to a time and place.
Related: slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/16/cbt…
Also (interestingly) related: slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/rea…
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8 Mar
"Maybe, power dynamics in society aren’t so much about who is in charge. The problem is someone has to be."

I'm not sure that this is _necessarily_ true. Is there a way to socialize people so they do a good job of being in charge?
Is it possible to train people to be good rulers? So that the people with privilege are good social stewards instead of assholes?
I don't know. The historical record is not great on this point. It seems like trying to be a social steward tends to morph into thinking that you're better than everyone else, and deserve the best stuff at the expense of everyone else.
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8 Mar
Running with this to see if it holds up:
Example 1: "It's low status to sleep in your car."

I can totally believe that this is code for "'the authorities' don't want you to sleep in your car."
It seems like this kind of thing is punished waayyy out of proportion to the the cost to society (which is basically non-existent, as near as I can tell).

But this is one way to escape from high rents and therefore wage slavery. Thus, punished, and censured as low status.
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3 Mar
I think this thread is basically correct and important.
In fact I think I said something similar a few months ago:

Although, it does still bother me when people blame "capitalism", in particular.

I guess because it is particularly infuriating when one of the very few the incredible, amazing, generators of enormous historical good is blamed for bad things.
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1 Mar
For at least the month of March, I'm going to maintain the TAP of "feel and urge to write a twitter thread -> start writing a blog post instead."

So if you want to follow my content, I guess you should follow my blog.

musingsandroughdrafts.wordpress.com
Broadly, I'm not sure how much value my writing twitter threads provides, relative to the costs.

Ostensibly, more people see my twitter threads than my blog posts (I think), but I suspect the QUALITY of the engagement is much lower for twitter.
For twitter, I think most people are casually scrolling through their feeds, giving momentary attention to things that seem interesting.
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1 Mar
Meta-thread:

I want to compile all of my twitter threads that touch on what I care about in a romantic partnership / spiritual collaboration.
This is largely for my own reference.

However, it occurs to me that a bunch of disparate threads, each of which was alive when I wrote it, and each dealing with a different facet, might in aggregate, be a good way of conveying the ephemeral thing-ness of my experience.
I'm increasingly resistant to try and describe what I want in this domain in any kind of top-down way, because when I try, my descriptions often feel "flat" to me, and more-often-than-not I feel missed or projected on.

Maybe this will work better?
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