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 It worked once, right?
 
 (Picture me playing Hermione Granger in a post-Singularity [holonovel](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holo-novel_program) adaptation of _Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ (Emma Watson having charged me [the standard licensing fee](/2019/Dec/comp/) to use a copy of her body for the occasion): "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!")
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+> An extreme case in point of "handwringing about the Overton Window in fact constituted the Overton Window's implementation"
+OK, now apply that to your Kolomogorov cowardice
+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1373004525481598978
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ASpGaS3HGEQCbJbjS/eliezer-s-sequences-and-mainstream-academia?commentId=6GD86zE5ucqigErXX
+> The actual real-world consequences of a post like this when people actually read it are what bothers me, and it does feel frustrating because those consequences seem very predictable
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+http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/47
+https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/97
+> one technique was to look at what _ended up_ happening, assume it was the _intended_ result, and ask who benefited.