This is my first post to Less Wrong. I'm not sure if the moderators will consider it appropriate or not. I share it here for feedback on my writing. Nothing in here is likely to be new to readers of this forum. It is hortative literature intended to stir you on to live a rational and ethical life. The material of the exhortation is atypical of what I have observed here, but I've only been a reader for a little while. I was reading through the Sequences when I wrote this, and feel indebted to the ideas expressed therein. Please ignore the Substack link, I'm not committed at all to writing their with consistency. It just felt a bit weird to not do a link post when this is in fact a mirror of something I wrote there. The conclusion in my judgment is a failure, but I was worried I'd never do this at all if I didn't publish it now.
When you are standing on the ground, you can’t really tell how much taller Willis Tower is than everything else in Chicago.
Walking down the street, craning your neck, gawking at the verticality of it all, you [...]
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