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> As an aside, I don’t get all the people loudly expressing being depressed about the graphs and whatever. This is in line with predictions. People knew that wa
by Timon3 3y ago
> As an aside, I don’t get all the people loudly expressing being depressed about the graphs and whatever. This is in line with predictions. People knew that was going to happen. It’s pretty useless to bemoan things which are unavoidable.
Humans aren't robots. We don't just have feelings connected to surprising events, but also to unsurprising ones. Why should people not have feelings on this topic?
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y agoThere is not actually a contradiction between "people can have feelings on the topic" and "the feelings are, in themselves, pretty useless".
- Timon3 3y agoThere is a strong contradiction between those sentences, because feelings aren't useful or useless. They just are. You are calling them useless, but that doesn't make them useless. You can say that feelings are useless in reaching a specific goal, but that is not what you initially said.
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y agoInitially? What is it that you think that "I initially said" ?
- Timon3 3y agoSorry, not you, I meant GP.