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title: I Am Le Tired
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date: 2012-06-24
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techne: :done
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episteme: :log
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An announcement! (I should put this somewhere else too, maybe. Eh.)
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I've started to acquire quite a lot of sub-sites, so I decided to re-tool the main site a bit more aggressively, groups stuff more, clean up in general. This changed some of the links on the main site, and I moved some of that stuff back into the blog, but hey, no one ever linked to it (or even read it), so that shouldn't matter much. (I redirected links anyway. I try to never break anything.)
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<http://muflax.com> is now a (simple) portal for all my sites, and the articles hosted directly there are Big Fat Things That Grow Over Time[^yo] But Have A Kind Of Limited Scope And Are At Some Point Done And Self-Contained. BFTTGOTBHAKOLSAAASPDASCs. (In [antediluvian][] times, I think they called those thing "books". Or a "tractatus". Something like that.) For now, they are either way-too-ambitious posts like the [Antinatalism FAQ][] or stuff that all belongs together, in some sense.
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I'll unify some stuff into single articles (like the antinatalism one), once there's a bit more content / I'm in the mood. I don't want to end up like Certain People who have elaborate intelligent arguments spread out over a bazillion blog posts and you can't just say, "read this huge site here, it contains everything you need to know".[^meta]
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[^meta]:
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hey I just met you
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and this is crazy
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but here's my website
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so believe me maybe
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and all the other sites
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try to refute me
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but here're my axioms
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so believe me maybe
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Might even use some pretty CSS or something soon. Right after I've watched this cat jump into a box. Haha, you so funny, cat.
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[^yo]: Insert obvious yo mamma joke here.
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Also, there is now an additional [universal RSS feed][Universal RSS] that includes *all* sites. (So you don't need 50 different feeds if you follow all my stuff anyway.) You can of course still follow individual feeds as always.
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And because I'm reading more, and I like lists, and reviews, hey!, there's now a [Let's Read][] site! I don't expect it to be very in-depth, or heck, even active in a month or two, but let's throw fifty ideas against the wall, one will stick! (Or at least make the wall sticky. *Eww*.)
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I'm not yet committing to posting anything there, but I've set it up anyway. I have, however, committed to a [new Beeminder goal][Beeminder anki new] of adding 5 new cards per day to my Anki decks, ignoring auto-generated cards for language learning.[^lang] Similarly, I may commit soon to, say, one review (or quote-thingy like for PIT) per week. Just trying to figure out how useful for me this would be.
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[^lang]: Virtually *all* my language cards are now auto-generated. I add maybe a handful of words a year by hand. Dumping another few thousand sentences from a fun source is so much more productive. Accordingly, I've lowered the leech threshold on language decks to 4 failures before the card is auto-deleted.
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This might be a little bit too TMI, but I'd like to say that deep pressure as in Grandin's [Hug Machine][] is *amazing*. I got into the habit of writing a short inscription[^amdg] on my skin, putting a neat transparent band-aid on it to preserve it (and because taking off a band-aid feels awesome), then wrapping it very tightly with a bandage, trying to apply as much pressure as possible without cutting off the circulation.
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[^amdg]: Currently, a cross with the letters ADMG (ad maiorem Dei gloriam) in its corners. Sometimes a Dharma Wheel, or just words I like.
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Which means that sometimes I look a bit like Rei.
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<%= image("rei.jpg", "Rei") %>
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Anyhow, so I bought an original Japanese [Sarashi][], the kind of long bandage-like cloth you wear under your clothes, either for protection (if you're a guy) or to flatten your chest (if you're a girl). You've probably seen them in samurai flicks. A few things I learned:
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It's 9m long. That's awesome for wrapping yourself up, but a *bitch* to fold. You keep on folding and think, come on, I should be about done by now!, nope lol, still some meters to go.
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Japanese packaging is amazingly neat. The receipt even had an origami swan glued to it. This alone made my day.
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Did I say that it's 9m long? Have you ever tried to wrap something around yourself, *tightly*, really damn-can't-breathe tightly, that is 9m long? Ain't exactly easy, let me tell ya. Forget folding. Roll it all up. Only sane way to do it.
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9m is not nearly long enough. Ok, yeah, it *seems* long, but it's only like 7 or so revolutions. It will hold and nicely apply pressure, but you won't feel completely constrained. Still works, though. Try doing anapana with it, you'll see. Or crunches.
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I need more bandages. Long bandages. Ever more bandages!
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It's insane how much this calms me down. It's like applying a medkit to the *soul*.
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I thought a bit more about thinking about philosophy, and luckily found a [solution due to divine inspiration][Condemnation].
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As you may have guessed, this is based (quite literally) on the [Condemnation of 1277][], and about half of the condemnations are taken more-or-less directly from it (because I liked them[^ironic] and kept laughing about how the *original Condemnation of 1277* could be used, *verbatim*, to criticize several philosophy debates *today*).
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The second major influence are the Buddha's 14 Unanswerable Questions, as quoted in the beginning. (Which is also where the "or not, or both, or neither" formulation comes from. I always loved the dialetheist qualification in the canon.)
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I would also like to say that I had *a lot* of fun writing this, and also feel relieved for having properly disowned some things. I've tried it before by using [epistemic markers][Epistemic State], but that didn't quite work. So now, there's a Big Fat Banner warning about their having been disowned.
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[^site]: On this site, at least. I might extend it to other sites as I see fit / whenever I'm reminded of their existence.
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[^ironic]: Also, even though some aspects of the Condemnation are of course ironic, none of the actual condemnations are. Even though some formulations are optimized for maximal lulz.
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The most important reason for the Condemnation, besides Doing The Catholic Thing By Declaring Problems Heretical <del>And Killing Everyone Involved</del>, is that I simply asked myself something like this:
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- Inquisitor: Why do you think about these things?
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- Writer: They are important philosophy.
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- I: Important for what? What are you trying to do?
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- W: Solve metaphysics and some other things.
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- I: What for? What is your explicit *goal*? What would you be able to do once you had solved it?
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- W: Well, I hadn't really thought about that...
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- I: If God Himself appeared right now and told you the answer, what would that change? If he lied, *could you even tell*?
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- W: If you put it like this...
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Also:
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- I: Is it true you *believe* these things, to some degree?
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- W: Well yes. You should take it seriously, shouldn't you?
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- I: Do you remember the Fifth Commandment?
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- W: A Discordian is Prohibited from Believing What he reads.
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- I: Correct. Do you admit that you have gone from exploration of certain philosophies as useful tools and fun pastimes to actually believing these philosophies and obsessing about them?
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- W: I do.
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- I: Case closed.
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Yeah.
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This stuff is a big waste of my time and I'd like to get back to doing useful things, like code, watch cat videos and learn Sumerian.
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