i am skeptical for example that david shor or scott alexander have much benefited in an epistemological sense from the sort of Criticism that their transparency has facilitated
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Wait is everyone gonna lock their accounts again

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probably not my guess is the next time something bad happens we just bail out. but who knows.
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The principle behind TED style audience traction seems to be to be as original and current as possible, deeply invest the audience into liking the thesis, but to replace everything controversial by a placeholder that allows the audience to fill in their favorite interpretation.
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The value provided by SSC and Shor depends on never cheating with illegibility. The illegibility of postrat adjacent discourse etc is born out of dissidence, so it seems to be obvious how the gaps have to be filled. That might be an illusion however.
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You're a Good Robot and Father. May you find Eternal Warmth from that Knowledge
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This thread makes me think of cells — membranes and barriers and borders. Complexity and subtlety and beauty evolve in such confines and without them their delicate inner structures are ripped apart in the vast sameness of solution
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