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 Title: The Source of Our Power
 Date: 2019-07-02 05:00
-Tags: discourse, my robot cult
+Tags: discourse, my robot cult, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander
 Category: other
 
 "I really don't think you're rationally considering how to maximize your contribution to rationality pedagogy and deciding it runs through freaking out about transgender and maybe abandoning the movement in disgust."
 
-"_Almost no one's_ optimal contribution to rationality pedagogy runs through freaking out about transgender; I just think it's plausible that _mine_ does. It is written that [power comes from having Something to Protect](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SGR4GxFK7KmW7ckCB/something-to-protect): the [Sequences](https://www.readthesequences.com/) were distilled out of Eliezer Yudkowsky's attempt to think carefully about how to build a superintelligence; the classic _Slate Star Codex_ posts on [argumentative charity](https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/12/youre-probably-wondering-why-ive-called-you-here-today/) were born out of Scott Alexander's [trauma after accidentally running afoul](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/12/a-response-to-apophemi-on-triggers/) of social-justice activists.
+"_Almost no one's_ optimal contribution to rationality pedagogy runs through freaking out about transgender; I just think it's plausible that _mine_ does. It is written that [power comes from having Something to Protect](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SGR4GxFK7KmW7ckCB/something-to-protect): the [Sequences](https://www.readthesequences.com/) were distilled out of Eliezer Yudkowsky's attempt to think carefully about how to build a superintelligence; the classic _Slate Star Codex_ posts on [argumentative charity](http://web.archive.org/web/20200110071406/https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/12/youre-probably-wondering-why-ive-called-you-here-today/) were born out of Scott Alexander's [trauma after accidentally running afoul](http://web.archive.org/web/20200612024112/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/12/a-response-to-apophemi-on-triggers/) of social-justice activists.
 
 "If Eliezer had _started out_ trying to write about human rationality, if Scott had _started out_ trying to write about discourse norms, _it wouldn't have worked_. The Art must have a purpose other than itself, or it collapses into infinite recursion."