IDK. Balance also seems like a metaphysical commitment, similar to equity,
equality, egalitarianism, equilibrium, fairness. I think the only reason I'm
not actually an anarchist is because I can't put any faith in ideas like
balance. They're inherently optimistic. The high frequency, high dimensional
stuff I interact with seems wholly unfair, unbalanced, ... always far from
equilibrium. To believe otherwise feels fideistic.
But it just doesn't matter if you let it go.
On 6/24/25 5:02 PM, steve smith wrote:
glen wrote:
Yes. Realism is often couched as a third way between optimism and pessimism.
But all 3 seem to me to assume some kind of metaphysical commitment: optimism ←
outcomes trend good, pessimism ← outcomes trend bad, realism ← there is an
outside world and we have access to it. But I propose a different third way
(maybe a fourth way if we place them all on a 2d plane): doubt or agnosticism.
Just stop putting your faith into anything, negative or positive, real or fake,
and you'll be just fine. Just let go... 8^D
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36285938/
Good points all, but where am I going to get my endorphin/cortisol rushes from?
Skepticism, Pragmatism, Realism as third-way/middle-way/objective-way, all have
a duplicitous feel to me sometimes? see your sticky, raise you a smarmy?
I'll see our "middle way"s and raise us a Beauty Way (hózhóní)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/h%C3%B3zh%C3%B3n%C3%AD>? the WooWooWay? or (nod to Stephen and
DaveW) WuWei <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei>?
The *Diné Beauty Way* (/Hózhóji/, in Navajo) is a foundational concept in
Diné (Navajo) philosophy. It is *not merely aesthetic*, but a deep
*cosmological, ethical, and spiritual path* — a way of *living in balance* with
the world, with the elements, with oneself, and with the unseen.
I'm doubting Palantir (or SpaceX) has a "middle way", much less a "Beauty Way"... more like
Nick/Stephen's MOTH
<https://ideas.repec.org/a/jas/jasssj/2005-50-2.html#:~:text=In%20this%20study%2C%20we%20modify,a%20wide%20range%20of%20conditions.>
(my way or the highway) at best? George hallucinated? that MOTH stands for "Mirror Of The Heart", a
more generous than MyWayHighway?
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