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Edgelord Energy (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Rory from The Violet Hour)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Therapy for Edge Lords

"I wrote this essay called therapy for edge lords because I was confused by some of Agnes's previously slightly um playful but insulting remarks to Robin in his like general account of safety," he says. "So if you find uh Robin in general um to be picking up other people's self-conceptions in an objectionable way then you're probably gonna find my remarks here also objectionable", the author adds. He goes on to say that it is not always possible to correct someone or inform them of something they might not want to know, so we need to go out of our way to give them a way to reconstruct themselves.

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