Imagine you were dropped in a world where the social movement you consider the most impactful didn't exist. Would you go and found it, even with all the social incentives pushing against you?
Realistically, likely not. But how can you become 10% more like someone who would?
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Ironically rats benefit least from this thought because rationality was so dependent on specific founding texts that restarting it from scratch seems bizarre. I know how I'd replicate transhumanism or EA, but I have no idea how I'd recreate the group of people unified by HPMoR.
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