# on minimizing harm

> I would like to be found incompatible quickly, rather than being found slowly poisonous
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> there are ways of living that are properly orthogonal to mine - and where harm *can* be generatively minimized, I would like to minimize it

I wrote those two lines 9 days ago, but didn't publish at that time, they felt unfinished

as I'm thinking through [what I'm thinking through today](https://www.isaacbowen.com/2025/07/04), ... this strategy *could* lead to a kind of invisibility, where my positive intent leaves me (1) active in your space but (2) invisible because I don't want to risk poisoning you

hummmmmmm