in retrospect maybe a memetic advantage i don't talk or think much about having is that i was AGI-pilled for long enough that i know what having a totalizing narrative about the most important thing feels like from the inside and i know what it feels like to step out of it
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this was a tweet about “people who are my type” but actually I realize it’s ex-everything. Ex-mormons, ex-smokers... it takes a certain courage to walk away from something that at one point meant a lot to you, and these people have both a lightness and a darkness about them twitter.com/visakanv/statu…
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wooord. i feel a lot of resonance with ex-[thing]ers of all stripes, as an ex-mathematician ex-rationalist and whatever else
oh i wrote a thread about this nice
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a lot of the people i respect the most know what it's like to feel betrayed by an ideology, and what it's like to deconvert. it's humbling to know you can be full of conviction for years and then realize you were confused the whole time. you take your own beliefs less seriously
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This is an interesting thread for me as a rationalist and ex-anarchist. Maybe one develops some antibodies to totalizing? AGI x-risk seems very real to me in a “that’s not where my talent lies, I hope those people figure it out” way.
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