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leave a line of retreat in ideology-space

it's not the world that's weird, you're just shit at predicting

under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you reply with object-level beliefs

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Q: What do you say when someone publishes a new quantum algorithm for breaking encryption?

A: Without a working quantum computer, it's just for Shor.

it would've been better for both modernism to stay main culture and post-modernism to remain counter culture – they both just work much better in their respective niches.

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I don't blame billionaires for trying to live forever, death is horrifying

me to myself at 16: Computers aren't as cool as you think

they're way cooler

* both YIMBYism *and* NIMBYism – many people have very strong feelings about this, but I don't feel like I actually understand them deeply enough (even though YIMBYism makes prima facie a bit more sense – of course you want more houses where people want more houses!). But I haven't thought this through at all.

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i aspire to CGP grey levels of epistemic rigour

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