some good stuff from here, on among other things the experience of being possessed by an ideology
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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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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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i think it’s one thing to join a group of people focused on a set of beliefs because you came to similar conclusions and want to talk through / engage with them more, another when that group swayed you to their beliefs on their own
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