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    1. Mark ( 👨‍💻's meditation instructions (See  🔗s 👇))‏ @meditationstuff 26 Dec 2020
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      Going to try to summarize memeplexes in a way that’s unobjectionable from the inside:

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    2. Mark ( 👨‍💻's meditation instructions (See  🔗s 👇))‏ @meditationstuff 26 Dec 2020
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      Rationality: Arrange the mind such that different data actually (1) ranks considered hypotheses differently, (2) promotes different hypotheses for consideration, out of the global possibility space, (3) modifies actions/plans (for more utility/data). Do this relentlessly/Win.

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    3. Mark ( 👨‍💻's meditation instructions (See  🔗s 👇))‏ @meditationstuff 26 Dec 2020
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      postrat: Personal epistemology is deeply influenced by contingent personal history, causing rationality to be subject to self-opaque rationalizing, so coherent behavior involves front-loading investigation of mind as it actually functions versus suspiciously-claimed ideal mind.

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    4. Mark ( 👨‍💻's meditation instructions (See  🔗s 👇))‏ @meditationstuff 26 Dec 2020
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      Critrat: Relentlessly examine all other-received and self-received wisdom, because it’s generally wrong or coercive, & if one isn’t having fun (experiencing deep satisfaction) doing this, or having fun generally, something is wrong somewhere & fun can be a gradient to find it.

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    5. Mark ( 👨‍💻's meditation instructions (See  🔗s 👇))‏ @meditationstuff 26 Dec 2020
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      @vgr-ness; I’m gonna mess this one up: Humaneness falls out of ironic distance, and capacity for ironic distance for some topic/dimension, is a litmus test for clarity/humaneness. Earnestness, goodness, and extremity are all self-corrupting.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2020
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      It’s vastly lazier than that. Ironic distance takes active work beneath ongoing denial of active effort. Neutral mediocrity gets you 80% of the benefits for 20% of the work. Slouching as an epistemic triage posture. It is to irony as bullshit is to lying.pic.twitter.com/Al53YebP0Y

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    7. Mark ( 👨‍💻's meditation instructions (See  🔗s 👇))‏ @meditationstuff 26 Dec 2020
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      slouching:irony::bullshit:lying I love this but I think you’re at least 51% ironic apathy (actual epistemic labor guided by distance/apathy litmus test) and 49% unironic slouch/triage. idk 🤷‍♂️ :-)

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2020
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      well obviously I'm too lazy too argue with that

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