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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2017
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    The more rational you are naturally, the more you need tech leverage to have an impact. The more non-rational (alt coherent cognition style, not deficiency of rationality), greater the potential return to working through people. STEM is best bet for rationalists for a reason

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      2. Thomas Choate‏ @t1618 11 Dec 2017
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        Well that is a wild puzzle. Tech seems to be the highest impact device ATM. So - non-rational folks all need to go into elected government or podcasting? ;-)

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2017
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        No they need to manipulate techies

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      2. Jscott‏ @DailySuicide 11 Dec 2017
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        How to pen the subtle pun. "...best bet for rationalists for a reason"

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2017
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        Hehe

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      2. Christopher G‏ @galtenberg 11 Dec 2017
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        Causality may also go the other direction - those into computers may be more lured to gamify their life, ergo have to get good at "rationality" (the limited subset needed for gamifuckation)

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2017
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        Doubt it. The naturally endowed blow the "get good at rationality" out of the water. I'm a mediocre rationalist at best, but even I am surprised by how poor the untalented true believers are.

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      1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 11 Dec 2017
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        Interestingly put. I agree. I've always loved STEM but never bothered to push myself in it because I've seen the personality types that do best in it, and I know that's not me. I'd get overtaken by the more methodical and systematic folks. Yo ho ho it's a shaman's life for me

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      1. Artem Litvinovich‏ @theartlav 11 Dec 2017
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        Personal power vs remote power. You can make things happen by interacting with the laws of nature, or you can make things happen by interacting with people. The former is perfect order, the latter is perfect chaos. I guess it takes different thought patterns for each.

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        why i resist diversion from programming machine into programming humans with every tactics i can muster

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      1. Meekaale Brockman‏ @meekaale 11 Dec 2017
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        Is STEM also more vulnerable to nonrational games because of lower nonrational intelligence?

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