never have I least regretted escaping the grips of lesswrong in favor of postrationality or whatever the fuck this ishttps://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/993377953294696448 …
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Replying to @__a__chimera__ @sadmoonanalog
nah, some of us were already sick of lesswrong when we first found it and just kind of bounced around waiting for our context to exist
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Replying to @chaosprime @sadmoonanalog
I'd argue that before being seriously "post" rat, there needs to be a phase in a person's life where they focus on the rat stuff and get decent at it, whether autonomously or via reading. A bright 16 year old could do a lot worse than to Read The Sequences :-P
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Worked out pretty well for me at 20. The sequences remain the best work I've read on how to approach epistemology.
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Yeah, for me at 20 (before LW existed) my "rat touchstones" were an intercollegiate policy debate hobby and everything I could find written by (or even just related to)
#DouglasHofstadter :-) My nomic phase... Oh geez :-P2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
ah yes that delightful gateway drug Doug Hofstadter I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym
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