Why do you hold opinions? How? Experimenting with these is useful. • Interesting > correct • High impact > correct (“contrarian and right”) • Optimizing for aesthetics. Alters exploration • Trying to hold multiple opinions at once • Hold only facts and JIT compile opinions
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Defining "opinion": Any line of reasoning factoring into a model of how the world works and how you should act. Could be as big and important as life-guiding moral imperatives, politics, philosophy. Could be as small as tiny theories about your own personality quirks or friends'
Theme of examples in root tweet: Accumulate tons of random facts, abstractions, intuition. Train your brain to surface patterns based on different utility functions (interestingness, leverage, aesthetic). Kill urge to reconcile thoughts w/ a world view. Each thought is just a toy
