Singlethink — LessWrong
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I remember the exact moment when I began my journey as a rationalist. …
x Singlethink — LessWrong Letting Go Self-Deception Rationality Frontpage 129 Singlethink by Eliezer Yudkowsky 6th Oct 2007 2 min read 32 129 I remember the exact moment when I began my journey as a rationalist. It was not while reading Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman or any existing work upon rationality; for these I simply accepted as obvious. The journey begins when you see a great flaw in your existing art, and discover a drive to improve, to create new skills beyond the helpful but inadequate ones you found in books. In the last moments of my first life, I was fifteen years old, and reh
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