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Kevin Simler
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Kevin Simler 17h
Replying to @acapellascience
“The best way to elicit an original thought is to ask an original question.”
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Kevin Simler Feb 1
Replying to @gleech8 @drethelin
That’s where I first thought to check. He does give “tabooed utterances” though, which is close
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Kevin Simler Jan 30
whoa...... wish I could be there! have fun y’all
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Kevin Simler Jan 27
Replying to @eigenrobot
This is the first I’ve seen the work of a bot get remixed/built on (in a ‘sincere’ way, i.e., not fixated on the botness). Feels significant
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Kevin Simler Jan 26
Replying to @mrgunn
Thanks for the synthesis/update... 🤞🤞
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Kevin Simler Jan 26
Replying to @paulbaumgart
Yes very curious!! One might even say excited.....
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Kevin Simler Jan 26
Replying to @KevinSimler
This (from Paul below) was my favorite response Surprised no one mentioned the two I’m waiting for: male circumcision in the US (we still do this?!) and eating animals (once we have synthetic meat, if not earlier)
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Kevin Simler Jan 26
Replying to @runarorama
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Kevin Simler Jan 26
Replying to @futurepundit
Yeah I think you’re right. I actually originally wrote “higher-order belief cascades,” but changed it because I thought more people would understand the term “preference falsification cascade.”
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Kevin Simler Jan 26
Replying to @paulbaumgart
Thank you, these are fantastic. I too am patiently waiting for psychedelics to be legalized, which seems nearly possible?!, and for cars to be demoted, which seems impossibly remote ☹️
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Kevin Simler Jan 26
What are some examples of alternative models David? The main one I can think of right now is anthropology, which I suppose is kinda stamp-collecty.
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
It is very good. Would love to hear your thoughts if/when you end up listening
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
Replying to @handleym99
I don’t have much of an opinion on how it usually shakes out. I’ve seen many cases where the preference pendulum swings toward (what I consider to be) truth, and some cases where it swings to just a different ‘truth.’ Always good to be wary of the latter possibility.
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
Replying to @Meaningness
Thanks, podcast downloaded!
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
CCing (in case he didn’t hear the podcast) because it seems like the kind of science anecdote he enjoys
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
Replying to @literalbanana
More of a hard-sciences example, but I love that progress could only be made by problematizing what everyone takes for granted: that mice are just mice. In this example, they were a specific breed of lab mice that had been subject to very weird and intense selection pressures.
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
Replying to @literalbanana
Not sure if related but there was a great line in Eric Weinstein’s interview with his brother where Bret said, “I discovered something in trying to figure out what [the literature] meant by ‘mice’.”
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
Replying to @literalbanana
Oh cool. I think I read something like this that you tweeted about a couple weeks ago. It probably needs to become more deeply lodged into my mind :)
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
Replying to @literalbanana
explain?
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Kevin Simler Jan 25
What preference falsification cascades are you patiently waiting for?
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