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these are such fundamental beliefs of hikari_no_yume that absolutely nothing can be learned of her mental state at any particular time by seeing them tweeted, unless, i suppose, they suddenly are full of especially bad grammatical and spelling errors maybe

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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'knowโ€ฆ

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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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@esoteric_programmer those can be many thing! but in this case i guess it would be a moreโ€ฆ i don't know how to describe it, but more โ€œnormalโ€ mindset? there isn't just one opposite to the rationalist thing, but the rationalist thing is very very โ€œweirdโ€ in particular ways

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