there’s a bit i heard on julia galef’s podcast — i quote it at the end of this post www.interfluidity.com/v2/9258.html — analogizing trying to survive under contemporary social media as like trying to drive while on acid. you might make it for a while! but eventually you’ll crash. 1/

hopefully we find a way to come down, to a different place, hopefully better than where we started, but still someplace consistent with reasoning and accurate perception. /fin