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Hal Jordan's avatar

Your post has very good insights, but when push comes to shove, Osama bin Laden correctly observed that "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse."

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Matt Reardon's avatar

Idk if this is anything, but assuming you're going to fail can be a good corrective to natural laziness / overconfidence / un-thoroughness, so maybe it's adaptive to turn this on in high stakes circumstances as a kind of instinctive pre-mortem.

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Moddy's avatar

Jews are elite group, compared to billionaires? Really?

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Ben Smith's avatar

This seems relevant to national and corporate AGI race dynamics.

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