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Thing I have noticed with rationalists (e. g. Ein Tyre and to a lesser extent myself): saying something and then pausing, saying "do I believe that?" and reflecting for a couple of seconds.
Its kind of an admission of defeat (your brain produces thought & speech faster than it can check) but there is a higher-order process running that performs a-posteriori sanity checks.

I like it.

if true that china will grab Taiwan in the near future, it's a good career path to go into chip manufacturing (it's probably also profitable if scaling hypothesis is true, so a double win).

Too bad /ratanon/ isn't around anymore, then I could disseminate this effectively.

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What is the distribution of future GWP conditional on China-level censorship world wide?

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broke: investing in "crypto"
woke: investing in understanding neoplatonic philosophy and becoming rich in gnôsis

I will move to the first city with a car ban and hot chicks

Me writing flashcards: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me reviewing flashcards: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Naive Set Theory by Halmos contains no mention of the Axiom of Foundation! Boo!

"Sorry, I prefer gods with a lower algorithmic complexity."

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