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Feeling sad about it doesn't mean you're going to force your children having children. You can have feelings without acting on them, but just perceive them. Wh

by dan00 6y ago

Feeling sad about it doesn't mean you're going to force your children having children. You can have feelings without acting on them, but just perceive them. When Joscha talks about controlling your emotions this certainly would go into this direction.

jagrsw 6y ago
In one of his appearances (maybe on the Fridman's show) he gave an example of being overly attached to outcomes of elections wrt to success of your favorite political party (being frustrated and sad when the party/president is not in power). His idea was that such feeling are not conductive to your wellbeing, and you should maybe do something about them, (just guessing: rationalizing it, meditating it out or somesuch). I don't think being sad about reproduction choices of your children is beneficial, therefore I'd also suggest dealing with it. In the end it's just influence of your genes saying 'go, do something, talk to them, we need to be replicated'
- dan00 6y ago
  > I don't think being sad about reproduction choices of your children is beneficial, therefore I'd also suggest dealing with it. Feeling sad about something, doesn't mean you're sad about it all the time, that's suffering. You just can't control every emotion in you and there's also no need for it, it's just part of being human. Trying to control every emotion is certainly more harmful than accepting them. > In the end it's just influence of your genes saying 'go, do something, talk to them, we need to be replicated' Do you really think that why Joscha works in AI and his desire to expand the knowledge has nothing to do with his genes?
  - jagrsw 6y ago
    I have a favor to ask for participants of this thread. I'm genuinely curious, and I don't care my about my karma points. What would be the primary reason for the proponents of the POV 'being sad about your grandchildren being gay b/c cessation of own genetic lineage isn't the best of approaches' being downvoted (like my every entry, and most others)? I believe it's an interesting conversation, and both side of it exchanged some interesting ideas debating in good faith, being reasonably calm and avoiding common fallacies, so I suspect some factors that are not obvious to me, like maybe the interlocutors are worrying that even discussing such topic might be a danger to their future rights of having offspring it all, or somesuch similar (just a guess, probably not even close to the real reason)? I'm trying to figure out what I'm being told, since downvotes don't come with comments/reasoning.
    - normallove 6y ago
      It's a recognized flag for a specific and rather imperial memeplex that is spreading rapidly. It also seems like a motte argument for the bailey of antinatalism, which is another strong and particularly distasteful -- for those who are not antinationalist I mean -- flag for this set of ideas that seems to come together or at least have an extremely tight correlation.

by dan00 6y ago

jagrsw 6y ago

In one of his appearances (maybe on the Fridman's show) he gave an example of being overly attached to outcomes of elections wrt to success of your favorite political party (being frustrated and sad when the party/president is not in power). His idea was that such feeling are not conductive to your wellbeing, and you should maybe do something about them, (just guessing: rationalizing it, meditating it out or somesuch). I don't think being sad about reproduction choices of your children is beneficial, therefore I'd also suggest dealing with it. In the end it's just influence of your genes saying 'go, do something, talk to them, we need to be replicated'

dan00 6y ago
> I don't think being sad about reproduction choices of your children is beneficial, therefore I'd also suggest dealing with it. Feeling sad about something, doesn't mean you're sad about it all the time, that's suffering. You just can't control every emotion in you and there's also no need for it, it's just part of being human. Trying to control every emotion is certainly more harmful than accepting them. > In the end it's just influence of your genes saying 'go, do something, talk to them, we need to be replicated' Do you really think that why Joscha works in AI and his desire to expand the knowledge has nothing to do with his genes?
- jagrsw 6y ago
  I have a favor to ask for participants of this thread. I'm genuinely curious, and I don't care my about my karma points. What would be the primary reason for the proponents of the POV 'being sad about your grandchildren being gay b/c cessation of own genetic lineage isn't the best of approaches' being downvoted (like my every entry, and most others)? I believe it's an interesting conversation, and both side of it exchanged some interesting ideas debating in good faith, being reasonably calm and avoiding common fallacies, so I suspect some factors that are not obvious to me, like maybe the interlocutors are worrying that even discussing such topic might be a danger to their future rights of having offspring it all, or somesuch similar (just a guess, probably not even close to the real reason)? I'm trying to figure out what I'm being told, since downvotes don't come with comments/reasoning.
  - normallove 6y ago
    It's a recognized flag for a specific and rather imperial memeplex that is spreading rapidly. It also seems like a motte argument for the bailey of antinatalism, which is another strong and particularly distasteful -- for those who are not antinationalist I mean -- flag for this set of ideas that seems to come together or at least have an extremely tight correlation.