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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

Yes. And college has a way of showing people they aren’t the smartest person around on everything, as people meet peers and professors across fields. I think a big part of why we are here is some of the players didn’t go through that. And while some learned about the bigger world, some didn’t

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