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“Don’t dwell on the past” is often reflexive advice when people don’t want to reckon with the past.

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People judge to reinforce their own sense of belonging. Others then feel they cannot fit in as is and must contort their being to do so. Under this tension, they judge others to reinforce their own sense of belonging…

A vicious, absurd, sad proliferation of a judgement virus that nets a distressed configuration of inauthentic connection.

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@teachrobotslove Pretend to cry and rage as if you are an actor playing yourself grieving and angry. Keep doing it until you surface whatever you forgot you are hurting over or told yourself you weren’t hurt about. And then let yourself be sad and angry for however many months you feel it.

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It’s a bit tragic that by the time you get something you really want, it’s not the version of you that wanted it so badly that gets it.

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@biiordache If you sit down, close your eyes, take a deep breath, relax yourself, attune to your body…

And whisper this question to your gut:

If you weren’t allowed to figure anything out, what would you have to feel?

What does it say?

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@maxkshen Whenever people tell me they’re studying psych or doing psych research I wonder wtf they’re doing cause I know they’re not doing this

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@JSargent88 Fear

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@ftlsid you’re too hard on yourself

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@theJayAlto Yeah, no.

depression is caused by repressing anger and fixed by expressing your anger

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@cantbetaimd I’ve gotten told the same stories like 6 times over and over by you lot. Now I only allow it up until the 3rd repeat then just say stop I know this one. Behold my grace I remember the goddam story after the first tell LOL

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@buridansridge I love it

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Nothing is scarier than pursuing the truth.

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@scottdomes I’m confused on how to process anger.

So is the implication that anger is unique in the sense that it’s not just something that gets felt all the way through and then it evaporates, it needs to be consciously channelled into some activity?

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ML algorithms are cool because they try to integrate data points and make predictions about things, like we do.

LLMs are cool because they talk, like we do.

RL algorithms are cool because they’re goal oriented and try to optimize choices, like we do.

Robotics is cool because you’re making things that move, like we do.

Artificial life is cool bexause it’s an attempt to make something alive, like we are.

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@TheShayanRabbi Elaborate please

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@scottdomes You are one of the only people I’ve seen that knows what they’re talking about with this shit.

How did you learn all this?

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@ftlsid Surreal moment when I realized I had overlooked accomplishing my childhood dream

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@TheShayanRabbi Makes me think of something a famous director said, can’t remember who: “there are no more original stories. the way to be creative is just tell a new metaphor” (something like that)

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@TheShayanRabbi I was trying to think why there’s such refutance of the generality of experience and my answer was that people actually lack deep enough insight into their own experience to understand as much. Then I realized that’s a corollary of “know yourself to know others”

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@ambitioninc Just to clarify, feel which way about oneself?