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I applaud Eliezer for trying to make himself redundant, and think it's something every intellectually successful person should spend some time and ef…

x Trying to understand my own cognitive edge — LessWrong Intellectual Progress (Individual-Level) Rationality Frontpage 74 Trying to understand my own cognitive edge by Wei Dai 3rd Nov 2025 5 min read 20 74 I applaud Eliezer for trying to make himself redundant , and think it's something every intellectually successful person should spend some time and effort on. I've been trying to understand my own "edge" or "moat", or cognitive traits that are responsible for whatever success I've had, in the hope of finding a way to reproduce it in others, but I'm having trouble understanding a part of it,

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