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Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball - LessWrong

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Comment by janus - I adore this post. Basically everything I've done that I think has been helpful at all has been the result of chasing the things that feel alive and puzzling to me. When I feel stagnated, I very often find that it's because I've been thinking too much in the frame of "the alignment problem as other people see it".

x Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2023 Motivations Rationality World Optimization Curated 515 Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball by So8res 2nd Feb 2023 5 min read 65 515 Writing down something I’ve found myself repeating in different conversations: If you're looking for ways to help with the whole “ the world looks pretty doomed ” business, here's my advice: look around for places where we're all being total idiots. Look for places where everyone's fretting about a problem that some part

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