Sounds fun: “Treat it as a puzzle. You know that some accepted ideas will later turn out to be wrong. See if you can guess which” Thoughts loosely held.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1332279396628049921 …
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7/ Hitler was a sensitive and idealistic individual who only wanted what was best but became a tyrant under massive pressure, taking max advantage of the system and situation. Happens to many founders “hacking” the system.
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8/ You should *not* actively try to become an example for others unless you also have children. The Jock/Chad archetypes are perfect, but only within a time horizon that ignores the next generation.
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Doesn’t apply if you think humans are bad or that reality is a simulation or that everything is the drama of god.
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9/ Seeking immortality is not virtuous (despite its popularity in the rational community) It thinks it worships Life but actually worships Fear of Death. It’s OK if it results from courage to befriend death though. Accidental immortality also ok.
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10/ Slavery is a contract willingly entered and is the default majority response. “Give me freedom or give me death” is an outlier.
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