homesafe on Nostr: Okay, long post about mindset and humanity and whatnot Firstly, Sofia, I'm gonna talk ...

Okay, long post about mindset and humanity and whatnot


Firstly, Sofia, I'm gonna talk a lot about this and not do a whole lot of agreeing with it and cheering for it -

but I wanna first say that I have a lot of sympathy for this feeling I think you're expressing


Something like :
"Fuck you, yes it's my business if you're running around being bad at thinking, learning things, and communicating - its my planet too, and you're making it suck more than it needs to by acting this way"



But...

Personally, I feel like my sanity would be damaged if I couldn't ... *feel* that disatisfaction with how much people are bad at stuff, without also feeling stuff like hatred and anger and malice

y'know, i don't wanna run around constantly having feelings rush out of my soul like intangible knives flying out to bring a ruinous curse down on the lives of everyone that is not meeting my "minimum standards"

even if I could calm myself down and remind myself that people are still kinda cute even if they're ignorant and silly in a way that's causing immense harm ...

i'd still be having to constantly beat back those dark thoughts - which is draining work

it just wouldn't be healthy for me,

and maybe more importantly, it's not actually part of the worldview that I find most helpful

I'll explain, the worldview I'm talking about, but this gets kinda mindfucky if you're not ready to ... sorta ... think like you're looking at the world spinning through its ages from a third-person perspective floating in space


but for what it's worth :

people being bad at thinking, learning, and communicating does not end with people failing to be curious and look for the truth

people also make stupid mistakes while thinking, learning, and communicating that take a whole bunch of different shapes

so many shapes of flaws, you can just keep following links about "biases" and "functional neuroscience" and whatnot -

"another one & another one & another one ..."

and if you follow that rabbit hole then you end up discovering that humans aren't just flawed, they're kinda "made out of flaws" in a deep sense

the first nude in the "showing my cock" series pinned on my profile has me posing with a behavioral economics book - which is a topic that is a good place to start for seeing research about all the flaws that form the human mind


the flaws were curated to kinda mimic the shape of flawless things - which is why stuff made out of fat and blood can walk on the moon at all - there was a type of shape we got closer to, and that shape was a true "source of power"

the flawless thing would be "patterns of behavior outlined by coherence & inexploitability theorems in agency" -

where you can show, in formal mathematics, that agents do systematically worse for themselves every time they depart from those abstract ideals

so evolution cludged together software and hardware that was able to better and better imitate those ideal forms

but nevertheless it's not even an *approximation* from direct example

evolution is blind and mindless, even if there was an example of a flawless mind in our universe (extremely unlikely,) evolution still would not have been able to see it and copy even a single part of its shape

instead, the human mind's power, such that we put footprints on a rock out in the vacuum of space, was just a consequence of an incidental statistical pattern that occured in our ancestral history

some genomic patterns produce, on average, more copies of themselves than others, given certain features of their environment -

and it just so happened that these statistical pressures - influencing which of the genomic patterns eventually spread to the whole population - were being affected by the actions of things which behaved like agents

and since the survival/spread of genomic patterns were encountering situations which mimicked the abstract math of "agency" - patterns which made creatures that behaved more like the ideal math ended up having advantages

(i'm gonna mention the name coined by the person who - afaik - first expressed this conceptualization of the origins of "inherently flawed but still kinda useful" human cognitive abilities)

(godshatter)

(it's just such a cool name - it's a *weird* way of looking at stuff, and it's gonna probably take some *work* before anyone who googles it is able to see the simple and direct way in which it's just a true thing about reality - but it's worth throwing out the "godshatter" breadcrumb thats a trail-marker for the start of that rabbit hole)


... which is all to say, if you decide that people should have nothing but the worst happen to them because they fucking suck at thinking / learning / communicating, you're gonna have to constantly battle with yourself about whether or not *everyone* is horrible and deserves the worst things happening to them


and, idk, i wouldn't recommend going down that road
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