No Safe Defense, Not Even Science - LessWrong

I don't ask my friends about their childhoods—I lack social curiosity—and so I don't know how much of a trend this really is: …

x No Safe Defense, Not Even Science — LessWrong Science Isn't Enough Courage Practice & Philosophy of Science Trust and Reputation Twelfth Virtue (the) Rationality Personal Blog 137 No Safe Defense, Not Even Science by Eliezer Yudkowsky 18th May 2008 7 min read 75 137 I don't ask my friends about their childhoods—I lack social curiosity—and so I don't know how much of a trend this really is: Of the people I know who are reaching upward as rationalists, who volunteer information about their childhoods, there is a surprising tendency to hear things like: "My family joined a cult and I had to bre

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