Human Connections

people. peopleing.

You actually can contemplate creating a new (cognitive) foundation for the world, something that vast numbers of very different people will actually want to count on. It’s been done before. It doesn’t require anything literally impossible. It’s not wilder than stuff respectable people discuss freely like “building AGI” or “creating a new and better... See more

How does one prepare for a reorganization of the way we organize as a society? Culture? Nation? Species? How many OTHERs will be lost in the process?

I wish, sometimes, briefly, I wasn’t so aware, informed, sensitive, self important, arrogant, compassionate, and (obviously) emotional. It is very painful to be a highly sensitive person. I’ve spent many years actually trying to dumb/numb/slow myself down.

I call this the high price of awareness.

I wonder what the experience of life is like for all t

We pay the high price of our own emotional freedom when we allow ourselves to be stranded by others’ temperaments and actions.

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Gut punch

front side of said post card.

This amazing post card I received from a substack author for subscribing.

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