Comment by jrflowers

Comment by jrflowers 16 days ago

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Trying to imagine writing 3,000 words about how Paul Graham and I have ascended beyond tribes without realizing I’m just in a tribe with Paul Graham

shw1n 16 days ago

as I like to say, "I'm tribal against tribalists" :)

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  • jrflowers 16 days ago

    > as I like to say, "I'm tribal against tribalists" :)

    Buddy if you can sum up your entire political philosophy as disdain for outgroups I don’t think you’ve quite achieved the liberation from the karmic wheel of suffering that is partisan politics that you wrote so many words about

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    • shw1n 16 days ago

      it was a joke, didn't think I'd have to explain but the key difference is I'm open to being convinced this view is wrong

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      • jrflowers 16 days ago

        You wrote three thousand words about how everyone that you know has wrong opinions and you have right nuanced opinions without actually sharing any of those right nuanced opinions. The sole topic of the essay is criticism of outgroups, it is the only thing that you wrote about

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        • shw1n 15 days ago

          I wrote about a lack of desire to find truths, not getting opinions en-masse from groups, and a method to find them

          very different

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