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Comment author: faul_sname 17 September 2012 05:27:13PM 3 points [-]

E.g. my choice of education and career (Social Sciences) directly contradicts the common LW wisdom, that much of it is pure woo and will be made irrelevant in the transhuman world anyway. I can't even formulate a "rationalist" argument against that wisdom

I can give you plenty of rationalizations, if you need them. My mind is very good at coming up with rationalizations.