It might be useful to know that I’m not that sold on a lot of singularity stuff, and the parts of rationality that have affected me the most are some of the more general thinking principles. “Look at the truth even if it hurts” / “Understanding tiny amounts of evo and evo psyche ideas” / “Here’s 18 different biases, now you can tear down most people’s arguments”.
It was those ideas (a mix of the naive and sophisticated form of them) + my own idiosyncrasies that caused me a lot of trouble. So that’s why I say “rationalist memes”. I guess that if I bought more singularity stuff I might frame it as “weird but true ideas”.
It might be useful to know that I’m not that sold on a lot of singularity stuff, and the parts of rationality that have affected me the most are some of the more general thinking principles. “Look at the truth even if it hurts” / “Understanding tiny amounts of evo and evo psyche ideas” / “Here’s 18 different biases, now you can tear down most people’s arguments”.
It was those ideas (a mix of the naive and sophisticated form of them) + my own idiosyncrasies that caused me a lot of trouble. So that’s why I say “rationalist memes”. I guess that if I bought more singularity stuff I might frame it as “weird but true ideas”.