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 Similarly, you should stop pretending to be a rationality teacher if you're going to be corrupted by politics
 
 20 June 2021, "The egregore doesn't care about the past", thematic moments at Valinor
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+You don't want to have a reputation that isn't true; I've screwed up confidentiality before, so I don't want a "good at keeping secrets" reputation; if Yudkowsky doesn't want to live up to the standard of "not being a partisan hack", then ...
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+Extended analogy between "Scott Alexander is always right" and "Trying to trick me into cutting my dick off"—in neither case would any sane person take it literally, but it's pointing at something important (Scott and EY are trusted intellectual authorities, rats are shameless about transition cheerleading)
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+Scott's other 2014 work doesn't make the same mistake
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