If you're comfortable sharing, what's something that an adult told you when you were young that — intentions aside — had a memorably negative impact on you?
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Variations on "intelligence isn't good for much" or "other things are more important than intelligence". I wasn't young enough to be fooled by that. But unfortunately, I was young enough to try to reverse the stupidity and believe that intelligence must be all that mattered.
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I would like to preempt reasonable criticisms of this remark by saying that if I can't take jabs at a more evenly-matched child version of Eliezer I am not entirely sure life is worth living
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Unfortunately, yes. In retrospect I kinda wish I'd been slightly more wild back when I had more energy for it.
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What would you have done?
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