What I first thought was: “Heh, a rationalist espousing the same rather moving sentiments that occasionally get to my head when I use psychoactive drugs”. I will not bore you with the details of my lives as a Japanese noble and an SS officer (hallucinated/vividly imagined after reading Akutagawa and some WW2 history respectively), but I have indeed seen some of humanity’s less savory moments that way.
This is all very zen. Do you have buddhist sympathies, Eliezer?
What I first thought was: “Heh, a rationalist espousing the same rather moving sentiments that occasionally get to my head when I use psychoactive drugs”. I will not bore you with the details of my lives as a Japanese noble and an SS officer (hallucinated/vividly imagined after reading Akutagawa and some WW2 history respectively), but I have indeed seen some of humanity’s less savory moments that way.