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You Don't Exist, Duncan — LessWrong

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Depending on how this goes, I might try writing a companion piece in the typical style, laying out the model clearly and explicitly and deriving concrete and specific recommendations from it. But it seemed worth it to try communicating at a lower and more emotional/visceral level, not least because that is the level at which I actually experience The Problem. Any clear, analytical essay would be the result of me trying to make sense of the thing that I'm going to try to directly convey, below. It is the year 1995. I am nine years old. In front of me there is a sheet of paper, upon which are written a dozen or so lines of math. The first is: I stare at it. I know that I can divide both sides of the equation by x, leaving me with: ...but this does not seem to do any good. I raise my hand. The afterschool volunteer comes over. "No," he says. "That's not right. X isn't a term on the left side. F is a function." He has explained nothing. "F is a function, so what this is saying is t

x You Don't Exist, Duncan — LessWrong Typical Mind Fallacy Epistemic Hygiene Rationality Frontpage 266 You Don't Exist, Duncan by Duncan Sabien (Inactive) 2nd Feb 2023 11 min read 108 266 This is an experimental essay, not in the typical LessWrong or Duncan Sabien style. Depending on how this goes, I might try writing a companion piece in the typical style, laying out the model clearly and explicitly and deriving concrete and specific recommendations from it. But it seemed worth it to try communicating at a lower and more emotional/visceral level, not least because that is the level at which I

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