Poor Yorick
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the difference between the lion king and hamlet is that in the lion king the jester is still alive; avi by @harveykrishna_
Joined January 2015
a list of my major threads: this thread on kingship and "jovial" authority
okay, let's do a @threadapalooza thread! This year's theme: kingship, in the archetypal sense Background: I'm a generally evangelical Christian minister who's thought a lot about this for the past few years this is gonna be pretty colored by my engagement with the bible
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“Orthodoxy reduces variance” sums up my beef with it. I want weirdness in the world, vast strangeness and new ideas; I want, most of all, for my flock to become themselves. Orthodoxy reduces individualization for the sake of communal cohesion/power
But Christianity does not consistently produce more Christlike people than my mentors. It’s not obvious to me that it produces significantly more Christlike people than other paths I know. It reduces variance, like all orthodoxies; and Christ is nothing if not an outlier.
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One thing that excites me about AI is it promises to put the educated classes out of work, and dissatisfied educated people seem more likely to cause institutional change It sucks that that’s what it takes to get jubilee—selfishness, not wisdom or justice—but womp womp
It’s gonna be great when we realize that if we automate labor, we can all go off and do interesting things if we’re just willing to split the robot’s proceeds nicely The intervening century might suck though
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But Christianity does not consistently produce more Christlike people than my mentors. It’s not obvious to me that it produces significantly more Christlike people than other paths I know. It reduces variance, like all orthodoxies; and Christ is nothing if not an outlier.
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and I can’t, really. I mean, I can; it’s my path, and I believe in it, and I find talking to Jesus to be the thing most likely to bring transformation in my life (coupled with courage), and I plan one day to surpass my mentors by following that path.
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A source of contention between me and my religious community (evangelical Christian) is that I have never met a Christian I admired as much as my high school mentors, who were spiritually independent. You’re kinda supposed to say, “This path produces better results” as a pastor,
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It’s gonna be great when we realize that if we automate labor, we can all go off and do interesting things if we’re just willing to split the robot’s proceeds nicely The intervening century might suck though
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You can’t be great doing the same things as everyone else! Go do something different. Which means being lazy by the metrics of everyone still following the boring path. But few of them will make the world different than it would have been if they hadn’t been born. Too replaceable
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RT @meekaale: AGAINST POETRY every time someone writes about morning light i want to break something fuck your sensitive observations abo…
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@AbstractFairy I mean on one level I’m confused too Wanted to avoid having his identity stolen, somehow got an overly conservative idea of how to do that
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Saving this for future Yorick: deranged Herzog penguin heads toward mountains Love you yorick
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