Blamer

27 Mar 2023 - 10 Jul 2024
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    • A subagent or agency. Hm, is blame really an agent? It's certainly a mode of thinking.@
    • When not shrieking accusations, He likes to get at the underlying causes of things. Like a detective or a debugger, that is his job, solving things, understanding their true nature, not just what is wrong but why it is wrong and who or what is to blame.
    • No, that's not a very good model, too rationalistic. The real underlying biology is more like a mental immune system, monitoring for bad thoughts and killing them before they become dangerous. This is sort of the Minskyan cognitive analog of superego.
    • Satan is the all-purpose terminus of Blame in traditional thinking, I guess. What a weird way to view the world. Or not-weird I guess, after all, isn't it more commonsensical to think that something bad has a deliberate cause than it just happened randomly?
    • The Greatest Commencement Address of All Time: Joseph Brodsky’s Six Rules for Playing the Game of Life Like a Winner – The Marginalian
      • At all costs try to avoid granting yourself the status of the victim. Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim’s logo — the opposite of the V-sign and a synonym for surrender. No matter how abominable your condition may be, try not to blame anything or anybody: history, the state, superiors, race, parents, the phase of the moon, childhood, toilet training, etc. The menu is vast and tedious, and this vastness and tedium alone should be offensive enough to set one’s intelligence against choosing from it. The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything; it could be argued even that that blame-thirsty finger oscillates as wildly as it does because the resolve was never great enough in the first place.
      • There is a big difference between this kind of anti-blame – which is in defense of personal agency, basically – and the agential nihilism of Determined,
    • A defense of blaming

    • In the sense that it is a vital part (or a synonym practically) for diagnosis. For causal reasoning. Of course they sound diffeerent. Diagnosis is clinical, morally neutral. There is a problem p and we have identified cause c as part of the reason,