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This advice won’t be for everyone, but: anytime you’re tempted to say “I was traumatized by X”, try reframing this in your internal dialogue as “After X, my brain incorrectly learned that Y”.

I have to admit, for a brief moment i thought he was correctly expressing displeasure at twitter.

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This is of course a dangerous sort of tweet, but I predict that including variables into it will keep out the worst of the online riff-raff - the would-be bullies will correctly predict that their audiences’ eyes would glaze over on reading a QT with variables.

Fool! This bully (is it weird to speak in the third person ?) thinks using variables here makes it MORE sneer worthy, especially since this appear to be a general advice, but i would struggle to think of a single instance in my life where it’s been applicable.

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    I don’t understand what he means by “my brain incorrectly learned” - he’s comfortable reducing everyone’s trauma down to X and Y variables AND asserting that their trauma is always based on a brain fart?

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      It’s gotta be a cult programming thing. X happened to you, you learned Y, but that’s incorrect, you should have learned Z, read this 10000 word manuscript, then come to our learning session/poly orgy and we can become less wrong together

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      1 year ago

      He had a showerthought on how trauma works, and how to fix it, and didn’t bother to check if it was true, but just stated it like it would fix people. Big R Rationalism!