"Please don't throw your mind away" by TsviBT
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People tend to get the message that they should orient with some kind of urgency and all-consuming attention around existential risk. An analogy here is that covering a lot of ground too quickly is like programming a project just using the built-ins you already know. You can go fast in the short term, but in the longer term, you're going to come back and have a hard time understanding why the code is the way it is. T.C.: I still don't feel like I'm being told to throw my mind away.
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