Rationality Quotes February 2012

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Do not quote yourself.
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No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

The intended listener must be doing an awful lot of stuff they already know is wrong. Ten days is a pretty short period of time to impress people as a god, and it usually requires more training and practice to get there. Heck, I still only impress people as a god around 10% of the time, and it took me 17 years to get here from when I first dedicated myself to rationality.

Your likelihood of being seen as a god is also dependent on what sort of people are looking at you.

3Tyrrell_McAllister14y

My understanding is that the intended listener was himself. He wrote the Meditations for his own benefit, to be read by himself to strengthen his own resolve. And indeed he does characterize himself as doing a lot of stuff that he knows is wrong.