> I have limits where it comes to people who I know are trying to influence me into believing stupid false things to their benefit. The market for astrology al

> I have limits where it comes to people who I know are trying to influence me into believing stupid false things to their benefit. The market for astrology already exists. Their whole thing is getting people who are into it to prefer them because their math is better. I get the anti-pseudoscience reflex, but (1) it's the wrong way to think about astrology and (2) it's weird to pick on astrology apps for their 'ethics' when the practice is more or less benign. We're not talking about a cult where people refuse medicine for their children here. From an employment perspective, Co-Star seems way cleaner than places where lots of people I know and like work. Better horoscopes than missile defense or spy drones or brutal retailers like Amazon. Better a stupid, fake typology than spyware that reads people's emails to hit them with more effective ads. Better to produce models of the positions of stars than models of human faces to power militarization of the Israeli border. Re: (1) Astrology as most people practice it is a low-stakes system of prompts for reflecting on oneself and one's environment in a way that is useful and healthy, but can easily be neglected when you're just trying to get from one day to the next. Taking it too seriously is a mistake, but it can be useful without being correct about the capacity of the power of heavenly bodies to determine human personalities or affairs. If we had nobles using court astrologers again, I'd say attacking astrology as harmful would be valuable. But when it's more about prompting for reflection or producing a shared vocabulary of personality, I think it ranges from helpful ritual to benign nonsense.