zephyr nightwind

a deeper wisdom, a more tender kindness lies under the mask of darkness

@QiaochuYuan on my good days i think they're an ecological immune response antibody type situation that's wholesome on the system level albeit usually locally suboptimal

@z_nightwind i got nothing lol. just seems like selfishness taken to an extreme in some sense. the discourse is confusing b/c i think the mental picture people have when they talk about "sociopaths" is maybe closer to some kind of high-functioning narcissism

okay here is my actual theory of autism. your job as an autist is to find a particular aspect of civilization to get obsessed with and defend, repair, and improve this part. this is what having special interests is for autism is when your whole mind is a kind of stem cell, growing up as an autist means specializing from a stem cell to a specific type of cell. you need to specialize in order to unlock full autism power because full autism power comes from understanding a specific domain so deeply your whole mind changes shape to conform to the shape of the domain itself. when you do this hard enough you can get so good at things it is literal magic. people who do this are responsible for probably a significant fraction of all technological, cultural, artistic, spiritual, etc. progress don't let it get to your head. stay humble. this isn't about you. the point of all this is tikkun olam. the good news is you probably already know what your obsession is. the bad news is you might currently be using some of your obsessive energy to destroy yourself. stay safe out there

@5matthewdub they really went and invented the ice cream torment nexus

i never expected to have such a literal application of romeo’s tweet

feeling understood is a luxury i cannot afford to expect

throwing random men together in a group chat doth not a men's group maketh

i am really keeping an eye on who shows the fuck up and who doesn't. who walks their talk and who doesn't. your actions speak louder than words, and my memory will record your deeds

(this is not an endorsement or disendorsement of monogamy or polyamory or judeo-christianity or buddhism)

monogamy is fundamentally judeo-christian and bad for people in the ways that judeo-christianity tends to be bad for people

you're not a fucking victim. no victims, no villains, no saviors. no drama triangles. fuck that. you're a fucking adult and you're responsible for your own fucking life.

don't abdicate responsibility for your own life. don't give away your own sensemaking about your own life to someone else's one-size-fits-all "good" or "bad" labels. fuck that.

they are literally throwing the party this year

“remind me why you feel entitled to that?”

business idea: say the word "jhana" as many times as possible until people believe they've been in it. charge $10k. profit

i look forward to an apology on this matter

the problem with “treat other people the way you want to be treated” is that it in no way guarantees being treated that way

sometimes he gets this specific voice i like to call his "full of shit" voice

why don't you write a book whining about it

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being the hero of your own life may result in being the villain of someone else's

i don't think they like me very much. how do i know? well I don't like them very much