I don't think I'm setting my price for joining particularly high here?
-if you're doing systematically correct reasoning, you should be able to get the right answer even on things that don't matter
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There could be similarly egregious errors that I'm not as sensitive too
I don't think you can build an aligned superintelligence from a culture this crazy
Ooh, how I wish they'd want me to stay.
+[trade arrangments: if that's the world we live in, fine]
+that's what makes it so hard: the only thing that actually helped me stop being bitter about school, was exiting the entire social context that made it an issue: once I had a grown-up software job
+it became irrelevant
+I was able to ragequit school (which was claiming to be one thing, education, but I don't think was living up to its marketing message) because I had somewhere else to go
+the obvious analogy here is to ragequit the "rationalist community" (which is claiming ot be one thing, but I don't think is living up to its marketing message)
+but ... that's my entire social circle