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Comment by sanderjd | Hacker News Reader

Honestly kind of curious: are furious and infuriated not synonyms for you?

Feelings wheel, my friend. Jealous and Furious are similar, jealous is when you want someone else to not have something, and furious is when they come for your stuff. Infuriated and annoyed are linked, and infuriated is when you get so annoyed you start yelling back. I'm trying to make all the emotional categories more distinct in my philosphy, recently posted a video as such https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZwxLUrlrk

Interesting! I don't really relate to those definitions - furious and jealous don't seem similar to me, nor do infuriated and annoyed seem particularly similar - but thanks for the explanation.

Most of the time people say they're curious on the internet, they're actually feeling dismissive, but just need more ammo to be able to dismiss the person. Which makes it skepticism, not curiosity.

I was both curious and skeptical about this. I appreciated the explanation which successfully sated my curiosity, though I remain skeptical. But I also have a new interesting thing to consider, to compare and contrast my thinking against. Moving forward I'll be wondering whether any fury I feel is more akin to jealousy or annoyance and that will be a new and interesting lens to look at things through.

I really was curious! But that isn't mutually exclusive with skepticism.

Sounds good. I'm still dialing in the categories. The goal is to have a complete list of all the distinct emotions a person can have, with simple definitions and (for lack of a better word) distinctions. Every event in a life should be able to be categorized into the categories, without unused categories, in a way that feels satisfyingly granular.

I think "furious", the more I think of it, is an anger regarding lack (ie if someone's house gets vandalized and the feel a loss in property value). Curiosity could culminate with inquisitiveness, which functionally feels like adopting new beliefs. Skepticism can culminate with dismissiveness. So as long as you're open to the possibility that your mind could be changed, it counts as curiosity, I suppose.

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