I'm doomed to a life of watching postrats reinvent every yudkowskian idea, down to every quirk and oddity, while claiming it's this idea that distinguishes them from Yudkowsky. Sooner or later I'll accept it as another of life's many irrationalities, but until then.. ugh.
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how would we know what his ideas even are. most of us are blocked
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In that case call the movement Heisenberg Rationalists.
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Apologies, can I have a redo? "Schroedingers rats" was right there.
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my personal favorite thing in this area is Rationalists discovering that Rationalism is just overwarmed korzybskihttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1364336019751899136?s=19 …
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episode 22: eigenrobot vs extropy
a few days ago I spoke with @jd_pressman At Length about the history of rationalism, focusing especially on the intellectual antecedents (not so often discussed)
this episode is two point two five hours long
https://soundcloud.com/user-557955426/episode-22-eigenrobot-vs-extropy …
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