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Comment by PaulHoule

1 month ago

… those ones that mother gives you that don’t do anything at all!

In response to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidary_obligations

>Contractual solidary obligations are frequently created by insurance policies

(take on solidarity v love-- later..)

>The origin of solidarity can be traced to a Roman idea known as correality where a single thing was owed by more than one person [but only one person need ever be accountable for it]

  • In games where any given strategy is potentially exploitable, I guess the meta is (a) rapidly decide if you're playing against a fish, or if you are the fish; then (b) if against a fish, exploit their strat, or (c) if you are the fish, run a mixed strat, to at least avoid yours being exploitable.

    Bottom box as primordial "third person" would go along with egolessness in various traditions (including 李小龙's "be water, my friend")? EDIT: https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing#n11598 ?

    Note that solidarity from roman law was directly taken up by civil codes, but HN's home country is a common law jurisdiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems...

    ("joint and several liability" seems to cover passive, but not active, solidarity?)

    • https://www.thenandnow.co/2023/06/24/adorno-and-horkheimer-d...

      Not like water? Or just like water?

      https://archive.ph/2025.12.29-103422/https://baike.baidu.com...

      Could be explained by a dichotomy* between "intuition" and "deliberation" 刻意(尚行)? A sorta Buxton mechanism.. (intentionally avoiding "saddles" "minima" or whatnot :)

      The former "turns enlightenment into myth" (cf again Horkheimer+Adorno)

      *Gemini tells me that the best approx to "creative disruption" is [eu]kainotomia

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    • (If we replace fish by "unicellular organism", it might be easier to get to "what kind of (meta)game gets them to multicellularity"?)

      Note that narcissism is what PH/Kohut is trying to breakup here. I struggle to put egolessness at its foundation, because that smells too much like nihilism. seem s increasingly less healthy to scale nihilistic therapy to a handful, 37 (~Dunbar), 1000s (POUM outer party?)

      Why not an alternative life-force that could legitimise the "ri" in shu-ha-ri, "acting-out", "disruption" (so take it both personal and ... solidarital (-activism)?)

      [Creative] disruption is after all the unspoken (meta?)ideology on HN*

      Fully hypothetically, we shall then consider the behaviour of "(self-)therapists" in that scenario- "weaponized curiosity" bootstrapping into a full alarm ---as "we" model the minds running a "Bildungs"-institution (PH), the spiessig (aeb), HN mods (yours truly) :)

      (I'd like to take it here to "self jokes or -tickling", but "too many knobs spoil the chat".. EDIT to circle back to civil vs common systems wrt fueling creative disruption soon enough)

      *Seems like a step up from "Schumpeterian" "creative destruction"/will-to-power tbh

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Not mother (or one of the universal mascots of fecundity[1]) only something to feed the festive fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_hares

>There are two possible and perhaps concurrent reasons why the three hares may have found popularity as a symbol within the church. Firstly, it was believed that the hare was hermaphrodite and could reproduce without loss of virginity.[26] This led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child.