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Galaxy brain resistance

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One important property for a style of thinking and argumentation to have is what I call galaxy brain resistance: how difficult is it to abuse that style of thinking to argue for pretty much whatever you want - something that you already decided elsewhere for other reasons? The spirit here is similar to falsifiability in science: if your arguments can justify anything, then your arguments imply nothing. You want to get to step 2 and then stop. It's easiest to motivate the need to think about galaxy brain resistance by looking at what happens in its absence. You've probably heard many cases of people saying things like this: We are building a new decentralized ____ marketplace that will revolutionize how ____ customers interact with their providers, and will allow creators to turn their audiences into digital nation states. $____ is a governance token that lets you play a direct role in this rapidly growing market. If we capture even 1% of the ___ market share, this will be a $___ billio

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