I thoroughly enjoyed this post; it reminds me of the sequences.

Some people in this thread have claimed that such writing doesn’t appeal to the three-sigma crowd. However, I would prefer to read such a post every week. The difference between the sequences, HPMOR, and the contributions to LessWrong of people like Roko and Wei Dai, and the drab, insulting rubbish I encountered in the official education system, is day and night, and it would be sad if young people in 2014 were to lack that opportunity.

This advice could not be more false. Although I’m not fit to lick his boots, in my opinion the beauty of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s writing is quite that:

you’re doing it all wrong, you should be working on this stuff like this instead

Because it is true.

Incidentally, I believe in the existence of natural elites.

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