SlateStarCodex, EA, and LW helped me get out of the psychological, spiritual, political nonsense in which I was mired for a decade or more.
I started out feeling a lot smarter. I think it was community validation + the promise of mystical knowledge.
Now I’ve started to feel dumber. Probably because the lessons have sunk in enough that I catch my own bad ideas and notice just how many of them there are. Worst of all, it’s given me ambition to do original research. That’s a demanding task, one where you have to accept feeling stupid all the time.
But I still look down that old road and I’m glad I’m not walking down it anymore.
I started out feeling a lot smarter. I think it was community validation + the promise of mystical knowledge.
Too smart for your own good. You were supposed to believe it was about rationality. Now we have to ban you and erase your comment before other people can see it. :D
Now I’ve started to feel dumber. Probably because the lessons have sunk in enough that I catch my own bad ideas and notice just how many of them there are. [...] you have to accept feeling stupid all the time. But I still look down that old road and I’m glad I’m not walking down it anymore.
SlateStarCodex, EA, and LW helped me get out of the psychological, spiritual, political nonsense in which I was mired for a decade or more.
I started out feeling a lot smarter. I think it was community validation + the promise of mystical knowledge.
Now I’ve started to feel dumber. Probably because the lessons have sunk in enough that I catch my own bad ideas and notice just how many of them there are. Worst of all, it’s given me ambition to do original research. That’s a demanding task, one where you have to accept feeling stupid all the time.
But I still look down that old road and I’m glad I’m not walking down it anymore.
Too smart for your own good. You were supposed to believe it was about rationality. Now we have to ban you and erase your comment before other people can see it. :D
Yeah, same here.