[epistemic status: messy. probably approximately one of the major processes for task carrythrough failure.]
explorer: why do i care about trivial inconveniences? those sound, uh, trivial
speaker: well, most of the time, youre not gonna be thinking shit like this, youre just gonna be running routines
explorer: what? i havent seen a routine
speaker: yeah because a routine is to a first approximation an alternative to you.
explorer: wait i thought i was just, like, me
speaker: nooo, youre a reflective process. youre optimized for figuring out long term shit and whatever. you got other processes for when you just needa walk to the train station or something.
explorer: oh ok hi everyone
everyone: hi
explorer: so can Doer... (read 272 more words →)
Without disagreeing with any specific logical statement you have made, I call bullshit on this. You have quoted a short segment such that technically what you're saying is not false, but you're drawing a broader equivalence & request for social credit around "not wanting to be in factions" which is not valid in context of the fact that you are blatantly participating in a faction and doing factional protocols. People are usually on board with the idea of it being better to just talk rather than do politics, and I acknowledge & appreciate the sense in which you want to want to not do politics, but there is a game here which you are playing in and I wish you would own up to that.