Ideologies are slow. - by Gabe - Cognition Café
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Don't dumb yourself by thinking through ideologies.
In the future, when I’ll add essays to my personal website, I’ll publish the first version as a post here. The website will be updated, but not the post. Here is a link to the page if you want to see the latest version! If you think through an ideology, you are making yourself dumber than you would be otherwise. That ideology might be communism, techno-optimism, effective altruism, or any other ideology, it doesn't matter. Any entity that has beliefs makes mistakes. No one, no group, no book, no ideology has a perfect understanding of the world. As people, we can more or less easily…
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