If bouncing between misanthropic feelings and a metta view of humanity was a professional sport, I think I could compete, and this is the idea that keeps me flying back and forth:
First, I thought about my own positionality and luck. I fell into the community I have now by happenstance (counting my contrarian temperament and wordcel nature as happenstance), and this community is deliberate in rewarding rigorous thinking. And after you marinate in this community for a bit, you will just absorb the epistemic norms and wisdom without much effort on your part, so it's not like I did anything special.
The Sapolsky-an idea that we cannot take credit for our accomplishments any... (read more)
If bouncing between misanthropic feelings and a metta view of humanity was a professional sport, I think I could compete, and this is the idea that keeps me flying back and forth:
The Sapolsky-an idea that we cannot take credit for our accomplishments any... (read more)