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Jan 26 17 tweets 3 min read
WOULD YOU STOP PPL FROM BEING BORN: A THREAD
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Do you have ADHD? || If you press the button, no person with ADHD is ever born again (or develops ADHD through other means), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you overweight? || If you press the button, no person who becomes overweight (unless they decide to be and actively try) is ever born again, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you autistic? || If you press the button, no person with autism is ever born again (or become autistic through other means), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Do you have gender dysphoria? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who will experience gender dysphoria, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you gay? || If you press the button, no gay person is ever born again, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Have you ever experienced a cluster headache? || If you press the button, no person with cluster headaches is ever born again (or get cluster headaches through other means), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Do you have chronic pain? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who will experience chronic pain, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you deaf? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born deaf, nor do they become deaf through other means, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Do you have disassociative identity disorder (multiple personalities)? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who will experience DID, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you very introverted? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who will experience being very introverted, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you/have you ever been a sex worker? || If you press the button, no future person will ever be born again who chooses to become a sex worker, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you religious? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who believe in any religion (in the classic god-meaning-sacred texts sense), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you physically disabled? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who is or will become physically disabled, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Do you like EDM? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who will enjoy EDM, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you greedy? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who is greedy, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Are you transgender? || If you press the button, no future trans person is ever born again, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
Do you have an unusually taboo sexual fetish? || If you press the button, no future person is ever born again who will develop an unusually taboo sexual fetish, though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?

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Jan 24
A computer screen has clear info you can engage with, but the circuit boards shooting 1s & 0s everywhere have no info we can interact with; it makes no sense to say something like "oh, more 0s came out of this corner of the board, does this correspond to mom emailing me?" 1/
I feel similarly about very deep psychedelic experiences or very young childhood; something is going on, that *does* end up corresponding to something meaningful, but it's occurring at such a different plane of meaning that squinting at it with computer-screen eyes is useless. 2/
So I'm sus about things that try to connect current psychological states to your birth experience, or thinking you could do good communication with someone blazed on psychedelics. Seems full of projection to me, viewing through a lens you aren't aware you have. 3/
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Jan 22
You do not have ownership over other people's behavior! They have no inherent obligation to you, and you have no right to demand they behave differently than they want to.
You *can* create boundaries around you own behavior - e.g. "if you make me feel bad, I'll leave"
Other people's right to their behavior does *not* extend to violating other people's rights to theirs; as in, people do not have the right to sexually assault you. Your property, your bodily autonomy, these basic things all 'protected classes' in my eyes.
But besides this:
Your pain is your responsibility, it is created by you, owned by you. Because it's your responsibility, it's also your *right* - you have an unquestionable right to it, it is inherently valid, and nobody can tell you you shouldn't have it.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 8
hearin lots of ppl talkin about how psychedelics can cause harm; this is true, you should be careful - start with small doses and work your way up!
but psychs can also be great, i did a bunch 8 yrs ago and permanently stopped "suffering" - *without* losing contact with reality
For some ppl, psychedelics sort of 'erase' beliefs from your mind; the question is, is your brain the kind to fill in the erased gaps with anything (e.g., "i lost belief in materialism... so there *must* be the supernatural!") or is it the kind of brain to let them stay erased?
My theory is this is the thing that differentiates harmful experiences vs really wonderful experiences like I happened to have. Imo the benefit of starting doses real small and slow is you can figure out which type of brain you have before you hit big doses.
Read 6 tweets
Dec 29, 2021
2022 prediction thread!
Ill RT this in a year so you can see how you did.

First one: What's the chance that BTC be above 75k usd in one year?
What's the chance the stock market have a significant crash that lasts more than a month?
What's the chance that we have clearly achieved herd immunity to covid, whether by infection or vaccine?
Read 17 tweets
Dec 26, 2021
I unapologetically view people who literally believe the stars/planets can predict unrelated things on earth as uniquely bad at thinking (moreso than many other strange beliefs)
But if you don't literally believe this, then astrology seems like it could be really cool. 1/
There's a ton of strange 'power of mind' stuff that probably feels very much like magic, and might need to be approached in a frame of magic for it to work well (similarly how believing in jesus makes spiritual healing work better on you). But it's hard to strike a balance! 2/
As in it can be really hard to let multiple frames overlay your reality at once without picking the mystical one and letting it blend into the predictive one. Mystical experiences can be soul-shatteringly profound, and it's *hard* to not let it interrupt normal truthfinding. 3/
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Dec 24, 2021
I think sex work changed my relationship to my appearance without me noticing: a thread
Pre sex work, I cared very little about my appearance. My mom picked out all my clothes to buy till I was 16 or so; I wore minimal/rare makeup, looking hot wasnt something i thought much of 1/
I started sex work when I was 20; over the years, caring about my appearance became really important for work. I put a *huge* amount of effort into it, cause it was absolutely crucial for my income levels.
This entire time, I viewed the care as "sex work specific"
As in; I figured "being hot" was an overlay onto my natural, not-caring-about-appearance default, and independent of sex work I wouldn't care much anymore. I think this started out true! But nearly a decade in and I think it's fused with me.
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