From 9d7ca5a4eba483377a2844ab6428b5df2ddd62ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 15:50:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] introspective note from chatting with A. --- notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index ccfd6c4..64adba9 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -534,3 +534,9 @@ https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1096769579362115584 Ooh, how I wish they'd want me to stay. [trade arrangments: if that's the world we live in, fine] + +that's what makes it so hard: the only thing that actually helped me stop being bitter about school, was exiting the entire social context that made it an issue: once I had a grown-up software job +it became irrelevant +I was able to ragequit school (which was claiming to be one thing, education, but I don't think was living up to its marketing message) because I had somewhere else to go +the obvious analogy here is to ragequit the "rationalist community" (which is claiming ot be one thing, but I don't think is living up to its marketing message) +but ... that's my entire social circle -- 2.17.1