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Kevin Simler
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San Francisco, CA
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Looking for folks with homemade worldviews. Let's think together. Book: amzn.com/0190495995/
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Kevin Simler
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“The best way to elicit an original thought is to ask an original question.”
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That’s where I first thought to check. He does give “tabooed utterances” though, which is close
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Kevin Simler
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Jan 30 |
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whoa...... wish I could be there! have fun y’all
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Kevin Simler
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Jan 27 |
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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
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Jan 26 |
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Thanks for the synthesis/update... 🤞🤞
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Kevin Simler
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Jan 26 |
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Yes very curious!! One might even say excited.....
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Kevin Simler
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Jan 26 |
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This (from Paul below) was my favorite response twitter.com/paulbaumgart/s…
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) twitter.com/paulbaumgart/s…
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Kevin Simler
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Jan 26 |
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😮
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Kevin Simler
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Jan 26 |
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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
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Jan 26 |
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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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Jan 26 |
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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
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Jan 25 |
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It is very good. Would love to hear your thoughts if/when you end up listening
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Jan 25 |
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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
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Jan 25 |
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Thanks, podcast downloaded!
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Kevin Simler
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Jan 25 |
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CCing @Meaningness (in case he didn’t hear the podcast) because it seems like the kind of science anecdote he enjoys
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Jan 25 |
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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
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Jan 25 |
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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
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Jan 25 |
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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
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Jan 25 |
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explain?
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Kevin Simler
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Jan 25 |
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What preference falsification cascades are you patiently waiting for?
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