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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

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The Importance of Intelligence in the Army

In the army, I discovered that intelligence doesn't make any shit of a difference. You can be a very smart bastard shrinking away from duty and create the most safety for your own skin. And so in other words, you're using your intelligence towards poor ends or selfish ends which may actually put a risk the whole platoon or the whole unit. That's when I got the name Socrates because people asking questions in the army is not a very smart strategy for survival. But anyway, that's again, my own personal biases here.

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