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Who Must Be Persuaded By Explanations (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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The Importance of Aspiration

The way to create an intuitive, vivid image of some alternative reality is to inhabit it as best you can. And initially, that may be the abstractions. That, in fact, is the thesis of your book, I believe, about aspiration. You have a thing that you grasp abstractly and not very vividly. And what you have to do is repeatedly expose yourself to the abstract versions in search of ways to make it more concrete for yourself.

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