Feels like it needed an ending… So you could open up the aperture of attention to get equanimity, but then what about the arguments? just ignore them since they’re from a “hell realm” ? (That seems like it may lead to being unable to learn certain distressing information that is nonetheless true.
PS I’m really enjoying the Opening the Heart of Compassion book!
I may have misunderstood the structure of this “stream of consciousness version”, but it concerns me that framing Eliezer Yudkowsky as “a hell realm being whose whole shtick is helplessness in the face of endless suffering” could introduce a new confounding emotional payload.
Feels like it needed an ending… So you could open up the aperture of attention to get equanimity, but then what about the arguments? just ignore them since they’re from a “hell realm” ? (That seems like it may lead to being unable to learn certain distressing information that is nonetheless true.
PS I’m really enjoying the Opening the Heart of Compassion book!
The factual contents of the arguments become fine once disarmed of the emotional payload ime.
I may have misunderstood the structure of this “stream of consciousness version”, but it concerns me that framing Eliezer Yudkowsky as “a hell realm being whose whole shtick is helplessness in the face of endless suffering” could introduce a new confounding emotional payload.
May I suggest a more charitable interpretation of what I’m trying to communicate here.