Eliezer: That scream of horror and embarrassment is the sound that rationalists make when they level up. Sometimes I worry that I’m not leveling up as fast as I used to, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m finally getting the hang of things, or because the neurons in my brain are slowly dying.
Or both. But getting the hang of things might just mean something like having core structures that are more and more durable which are harder and harder to break, making you feel like you’re not leveling up as fast as you used to. Whether not leveling up as fast as before means something more like not arriving at “new theorems” as fast, might be more because of the other matter. If it doesn’t cost anything and if it would slow down the neural degeneration process, be as physiologically healthy as you can on current terms.
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