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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Importance of Pain Tolerance
I'm interested in the extent to which rationality is about pain tolerance. The core problem of rationality is that doing things that will enable you to find out whether you are in fact right is just deeply, deeply unpleasant a lot of the time. And so I have kind of a constant vigilance approach where it's okay for me to get a lot of things wrong in my life. It's really not fine for me to become too afraid of the pain of writing down my thoughts and getting criticism on them.
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