On *Stubborn Attachments* and religion (from my email)
Hey Tyler I consider Stubborn Attachments your most dogmatic and religious book. Pondering on it, here are my Abrahamic readings of it: Jewish: Ten Commandments, obviously. While the bigger canon of Jewish laws tend to be overly conservative because people will fail following them anyway, the Ten Commandments are the laws the Jews should be […] The post On *Stubborn Attachments* and religion…
Tyler considers Stubborn Attachments to be his most dogmatic and religious book. Hasan, pondering on it, offers Abrahamic readings of the book. For Jewish readers, the Ten Commandments are the laws they should be stubbornly attached to, echoing Stubborn Attachments' message. Hasan also frames the book as "That which is good for the economy, is good for you. The rest is commentary." He compares Stubborn Attachments to a Mormon reading, highlighting the book's subtle commentary on philosophical debates.
Islamic perspectives add two more spiritual readings. In paradise, believers are said to witness the indirect effects of their good deeds, akin to the concept of compounding growths magic. The Islamic notion of "Barzakh" represents a realm where both accomplished souls and unborn souls coexist, comparable to Hasan's concept of zero-discount rate for future generations. Hasan seeks Tyler's thoughts on these religious interpretations.
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