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  1. retweeted

    With apologies to and .

  2. when you trade off your reputation against spreading important epistemic habits, you associate good habits with your bad reputation

  3. the opposite of survivorship bias is where questions seem harder than they are because people only talk about contemporarily unsolved ones

  4. retweeted

    Synchronization failed. Please connect to the internet to sync your conscience with current social consensus.

  5. you are the average of the five people you have the most detailed+salient models of

  6. it's definitely possible to get a large well-functioning system going, but it has yet to be done and humans may be inadequate to the task

  7. large conflicts nowadays are always like "which side is slightly less thoroughly incompetent and fundamentally broken"

  8. retweeted

    We generally adopt a new opinion by persuading ourselves that we have always held it.

  9. I can verbalize the distinction between articulating something and verbalizing it but I can't articulate it

  10. The distinction between deserving and earning. The people with incentives to not notice, to not understand this distinction.

  11. "I don't understand" is often shorthand for "I can't introspectively access the phenomena" but people don't disambiguate that,

  12. my favorite typo is "sleep-derpivation". my favorite letter is G. my favorite movie is Dr. Strangelove. my favorite suffix is -wise

  13. I wonder how much of the gender disparity in emotional proprioception is just that women read more fiction

  14. "imply" doesn't logically entail logical entailment, but does imply it

  15. "likewise" contains an implicit mutatis mutandis. "same" only sort of does

  16. contrasts are really psychologically compelling. people put lots of false contrasts into language with their buts and howevers

  17. tfw you didn't want to make that tweet about saying obvious things because of the non-obvious context and non-obvious implications

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  18. you're not communicating ideas. you're communicating triggers for ideas. but each trigger leads to different ideas in different people

  19. to learn new words you must need to

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