Made an account just to comment on this post. I really enjoyed it. And I have a rather green orientation, I believe.
This passage in particular struck me as the crux of green-ness:
Suppose, for example, that I meet a super-intelligent emissary from an ancient alien civilization. Suppose that this emissary is many billions of years old. It has traveled throughout the universe; it has fought in giant interstellar wars; it understands reality with a level of sophistication I can't imagine. How should I relate to such a being?
The irony that you mention in the last paragraph reminds me of another LW post that was already on my mind while reading this one: Slack matters more than any outcome. It points at the funny way that systems fight back in predictable-yet-in-practice-unexpected ways, all the way up and all the way down, and is I think an attempt at a more precise expression of the kind of Green wisdom referred to around "harmony with the Way of Things".
Made an account just to comment on this post. I really enjoyed it. And I have a rather green orientation, I believe.
This passage in particular struck me as the crux of green-ness:
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