Tsuyoku Naritai

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• A Sense That More Is Possible by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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• Egalitarianism
• Rationality as martial art
• Challenging the Difficult
• Rationality is systematized winning

• Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• A Sense That More Is Possible by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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• Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) by Eliezer Yudkowsky:

• Tsuyoku naritai is Japanese. Tsuyoku is "strong"; naru is "becoming" andvs. the form naritai is "want to become". Together it means "I want to become stronger" and it expresses a sentiment embodied more intensely in Japanese works than in any Western literature I've read. You might say it when expressing your determination to become a professional Go player — or after you lose an important match, but you haven't given up — or after you win an important match, but you're not a ninth-dan player yet — or after you've become the greatest Go player of all time, but you still think you can do better. That is tsuyoku naritai, the will to transcendence.
  Egalitarian Instinct by Eliezer Yudkowsky