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Writer, software person, armchair anthropologist, dilettante. All genders, all political opinions welcome. Book: https://amzn.com/0190495995/ 

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    Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 1 May 2018
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    Kevin Simler Retweeted Robin Hanson

    Robin's mind is untethered to normie reality. He entertains 10 weird ideas every day before breakfast. To collapse all that high-dimensional weirdness down to a single (left–right) axis is to completely miss the point.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/991394563196637184 …

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    Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
    There's a hard tradeoff re thinking about vs presenting unusual ideas. The more you immerse yourself in how others think, so that you can anticipate their reaction and avoid misunderstandings, the less space and time you have to think of and explore unusual ideas.
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      1. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 1 May 2018
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        Separately, I really admire that he seems undaunted by the outrage and continues to press the issue (or at least the meta-issue).

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      2. vitalik.eth‏Verified account @VitalikButerin 6 Sep 2018
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        If your ideas are *about* social science, then watching normie reality is important because it's by far the largest source of data.

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      3. vitalik.eth‏Verified account @VitalikButerin 6 Sep 2018
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        Although I personally have acquired many interesting insights by watching mainstream (US, geo...)politics and cryptocurrency politics and finding similarities. My main finding so far is that sufficiently large hordes of self-described libertarians can be remarkably collectivist.

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      2. James Tiberius Stone‏ @Evolving_Ego 1 May 2018
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        I don't know if it's as big a trade-off for most people as he makes it sound. You can spend 5 days exploring new ideas and then 5 minutes thinking about how to frame them. OTOH, I'm glad some people step in the doo doo. Sometimes it gets the ideas out there faster.

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