✓ tussle with Ruby on "Causal vs. Social Reality"
✓ The End (of Sequences)
_ retrieve own-blog links for "futurist-themed delusions"
-_ URL for "Why Quantum?"
_ double-check that "Changing Emotions" was in January
_ No such thing as a tree
_ Yudkowsky on AlphaGo
contrast the sneering at Earth people with the attitude in "Whining-Based Communities"
-from "Why Quantum?"—
+from "Why Quantum?" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gDL9NDEXPxYpDf4vz/why-quantum)
> But would you believe that I had such strong support, if I had not shown it to you in full detail? Ponder this well. For I may have other strong opinions. And it may seem to you that _you_ do't see any good reason to form such strong beliefs. Except this is _not_ what you will see; you will see simply that there _is_ no good reason for the strong belief, that there _is_ no strong support one way or the other. For our first-order beliefs are how the world seems to _be_. And you may think, "Oh, Eliezer is just opinionated—forming strong beliefs in the absence of lopsided support." And I will not have time to do another couple of months worth of blog posts.
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> I am _very_ far from infallible, but I do not hold strong opinions at random.
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+Another free speech exchange with S.K. in 2020: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YE4md9rNtpjbLGk22/open-communication-in-the-days-of-malicious-online-actors?commentId=QoYGQS52HaTpeF9HB
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hAfmMTiaSjEY8PxXC/say-it-loud
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+Maybe lying is "worse" than rationalizing, but if you can't hold people culpable for rationalization, you end up with a world that's bad for broadly the same reasons that a world full of liars is bad: we can't steer the world to good states if everyone's map is full of falsehoods that locally benefitted someone
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+http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bad-faith-behavior-not-feeling/
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