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0 pointsawakeasleep3mo ago0 comments

When I was a kid, I had to go to CCD, a religious after school program for Catholics.

The whole time I was there it was a mental game of trying to steel man the contradictory or incoherent stuff, using my brain power to try and rewrite things to make sense.

After some years, I woke up and realized that’s what I was doing, and even if I could do it in my mind, that didn’t make the source material rational.

Heres hoping you have a similar moment.

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handedness3mo ago

Pseudo-psychoanalyzing someone for explicitly steelmanning a subject seems particularly degrading to discussion.

antonymoose3mo ago

> Heres hoping you have a similar moment.

I do not politically align with Musk. I’ve always thought Tesla was important in popularizing electric cars while being a low-quality built product with repair and supply chain issues. I think The Boring Company is a joke. Twitter was a power-grab.

I also think SpaceX is societally beneficial, a good means to shake-up a stagnant industry and a humanity-wide area of interest.

If you think I’m a member of a religious cult, I respectfully suggest you evaluate what led You to believe that itself.

awakeasleepOP3mo ago

I completely failed to convey my point. It’s not about any of your beliefs.

The point is that you have been handed a pile of incoherent hog wash, and you are using all the powers at your command to rearrange it into a coherent narrative. It’s like a mental game that some of us cannot help but play. The point is you have to realize you are playing a game, in your head, and even if you can make a beautiful pattern out of the noise, it was still just noise.

Where there is actual meaning in life, its kind of obvious, you dont have to rewrite so much to find it.

handedness3mo ago

> ...you are using all the powers at your command to rearrange it into a coherent narrative...

You're literally describing steelmanning, which GP explicitly set out to do.

> It’s like a mental game that some of us cannot help but play.

Despite attempting to rephrase, you're still coming across as projecting your own internal issues onto GP's comment. Directly addressing the (worthwhile) points they made in their comments rather than attempting to analyze the meta of the basic nature of someone you've never met is the way to go.

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handedness3mo ago

Pseudo-psychoanalyzing someone for explicitly steelmanning a subject seems particularly degrading to discussion.

antonymoose3mo ago

> Heres hoping you have a similar moment.

I also think SpaceX is societally beneficial, a good means to shake-up a stagnant industry and a humanity-wide area of interest.

If you think I’m a member of a religious cult, I respectfully suggest you evaluate what led You to believe that itself.

awakeasleepOP3mo ago

I completely failed to convey my point. It’s not about any of your beliefs.

Where there is actual meaning in life, its kind of obvious, you dont have to rewrite so much to find it.

handedness3mo ago

> ...you are using all the powers at your command to rearrange it into a coherent narrative...

You're literally describing steelmanning, which GP explicitly set out to do.

> It’s like a mental game that some of us cannot help but play.

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