
Parallax Talk: Deep Future - Part 1, with Daniel Schmachtenberger & Alexander Bard
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The Intimacy of Intimate Contact With the World
i don't want my narrative to tell me how it's all going to go. With high certainty, i want it to like, help me orient to how to make good choices in the presence of the uncertainty as well. I thinko a had a conversation with mark ah, the rabbi on here, not that long ago, and he said something to me that might have been the best formalization of ethics i ever heard. He said, all fetters of ethics are fetters of intimacy. Because if you're in real, intimate contact with any reality, whether it's a tree or a forest or a person, the intimacy of the contact informs you everything you need to do not harm
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