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Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of...more

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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you ...more

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One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't ...more

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Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of...more

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World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

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Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick them into believing something else, if you...more

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All right," Harry said coldly. "I'll answer your original question, then. You asked why Dark Wizards are afraid of death. Pretend, Headmaster, that yo...more

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Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his own heart, in the anatomically correc...more

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What does it mean to call for a “democratic” solution if you don’t have a conflict-resolution mechanism in mind?I think it means that you have said th...more