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 I haven't been doing so well for most of the past three-and-change months.
 
 
 I haven't been doing so well for most of the past three-and-change months.
 

-This needs some context-setting. So, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this little intellectual subculture that was founded on an ideal of absolute truthseeking. Sure, anyone will _say_ that their beliefs are true, but you can tell most people aren't being very serious about it. _We_ were going to be serious: with a shared bedrock of knowledge of cognitive biases, reflectivity, and Bayesian probability theory bequeathed to us by our founders, _we_ were going to make serious collective intellectual progress in a way that had [never been](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nu3wa6npK4Ry66vFp/a-sense-that-more-is-possible) [done before](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/), and possibly save our entire future light cone from the coming robot apocalypse!

 
 At least, that was the vision _I_ internalized in the late 'aughts. Others who were present may remember things slightly differently.
 
 
 At least, that was the vision _I_ internalized in the late 'aughts. Others who were present may remember things slightly differently.
 


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 From the standpoint of a cultural minority, it feels like the dominant culture is constantly microaggressing against your interests, and sometimes you want to push back in self-defense, with the justification that they started it. But from the dominant culture's perspective, it was just being itself, and the "pushback" is the aggression, and the minority started it.
 
 
 From the standpoint of a cultural minority, it feels like the dominant culture is constantly microaggressing against your interests, and sometimes you want to push back in self-defense, with the justification that they started it. But from the dominant culture's perspective, it was just being itself, and the "pushback" is the aggression, and the minority started it.
 

+Tail didn't even want to Tweet me?!?