Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Incremental Progress and the Valley - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2009 04:42PM

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Comment author: kluge 04 April 2009 07:04:28PM 6 points [-]

But if you don't care about the truth - and you have nothing to protect - and you're not attracted to the thought of pushing your art as far as it can go - and your current life seems to be going fine - and you have a sense that your mental well-being depends on illusions you'd rather not think about -

..then it may already be too late, since the seed of doubt is already planted.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2009 11:48:39PM 9 points [-]

I wish. People seem capable of sustaining themselves in this state for indefinite periods.

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