Tags: personal, software industry
Status: draft
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+I haven't been doing so well for most of the past three-and-change months.
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+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!
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+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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+And so, as I previously blogged, it was _kind of a shock_ in 2016 when I moved to "Portland" (which is actually Berkeley), noticed that
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February has been a pretty exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession!
test case: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/
https://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
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