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Deliberate Grieving — LessWrong

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This post is hopefully useful on its own, but begins a series ultimately about grieving over a world that might (or, might not) be doomed. It starts with some pieces from a previous  coordination frontier sequence post, but goes into more detail. At the beginning of the pandemic, I didn’t have much experience with grief. By the end of the pandemic, I had gotten quite a lot of practice grieving for things. I now think of grieving as a key life skill, with ramifications for epistemics, action, and coordination. I had read The Art of Grieving Well, which gave me footholds to get started with. But I still had to develop some skills from scratch, and apply them in novel ways. Grieving probably works differently for different people. Your mileage may vary. But for me, grieving is the act of wrapping my brain around the fact that something important to me doesn’t exist anymore. Or can’t exist right now. Or perhaps never existed. It typically comes in two steps – an “orientation” step, where m

x Deliberate Grieving — LessWrong Grieving Virtues Rationality Curated 192 Deliberate Grieving by Raemon 30th May 2022 11 min read 16 192 This post is hopefully useful on its own, but begins a series ultimately about grieving over a world that might (or, might not) be doomed . It starts with some pieces from a previous coordination frontier sequence post, but goes into more detail. At the beginning of the pandemic, I didn’t have much experience with grief . By the end of the pandemic, I had gotten quite a lot of practice grieving for things. I now think of grieving as a key life skill, with ra

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