I need some relationship advice. I suggested 125% but my wife won’t budge from 10%. Is this normal? How did it go when you had this conversation with your romantic partner?

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    9 months ago

    I honestly enjoy seeing people like this with batshit insane but logically consistent views. Makes things much more fun

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      9 months ago

      This guy essentially founded modern “rationalism.” He has millions of literal followers, not just the Twitter kind. His dumbass is the one that spawned the Effective Altruism cult that has become extremely popular with tech bros. Sam bankman-fried, Sam Altman, Elon musk all subscribe to this “philosophy.” It’s all batshit insane and incredibly stupid.

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    9 months ago

    Ive no plan to meet second best nor be second best and I wouldn’t want to put someone through that nor go through it.

    We live in a world of consumption and throw away culture, we should have more respect then to inflict these ideas on living breathing and feeling people.

    Fuck that guy and his creed.

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      9 months ago

      I seriously doubt that’s his creed.

      It’s clearly meant as a parody of the way relationships end, but said out loud, in advance, to show the absurdity of exactly what you called out: “trading up” out of a relationship.

      The whole point of his post, was to get people to realize how shitty it is to think of people that way.

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        9 months ago

        No this guy is a guru and has influenced a lot of silicon valley with this type of “parody” look him up if you haven’t already.

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          9 months ago

          Oof, fair enough. I just ran head first into Poe’s law. Thank you for the added context. Yeah, he’s a piece of shit then.