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i do suspect something happened to us in 2023/2024. we have always been rather open-minded, after all we love learning languages, and that's a fundamentally mind-opening experience, but there was something that made the open-mindedness fully entrench itself in us philosophically

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what we think happened was, a manic arc at the end of 2023 threw us immediately into the tpot/ratsphere, which we'd previously been almost existentially terrified of. and then we had the manic hubris thing for a bit of thinking the rats might be right about everything, y'know…

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upon calming down afterwards and coming to our senses, one way to process that would be to totally reject it all, right? that's a valid way to deal with it, we won't begrudge it. but we realised instead that having a foot in one world, a foot in the other, is so much healthier.

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because it turns out that once you realise that the world is not a thing that should be viewed through just one perspective, or just a handful, but rather instead something that is beautiful because of the diversity of perspectives and things, you don't… want to lose that, yeah?

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but once you learn the β€œtrick” of viewing the world from many perspectives, it's really mind-opening because suddenly, it is not a threat to understand your opponent, it is interesting; suddenly, you can understand people you never could before; you become an information omnivore

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hikari_no_yume has no intention of becoming the Data Time Thought Integration Entity, or whatever the hell the thing Nagato Yuki from Haruhi is an agent of is called. hikari_no_yume wants to be, you know, a half-decent programmer who watches anime and makes little art projects

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i guess this is a thing we're going to be tweeting in one form or another, as a little thread, probably like… every month or every few months. we already have over the years. it's a recurring line of thought! it comes out different every time. it's… a gemstone with many facets

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