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EA-3167 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

Rationalists struggle to understand just how irrational people are at scale. In fact they think up these big utopian plans as a way to reinforce the notion that we’re just one good rationalist away from paradise.

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jimbokun 3 months ago [–]

Also an unwillingness to examine their own irrational biases, seeing them only in other people.

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