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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 May 2013 05:55:19AM 55 points [-]

...just to be clear on this, you have a persistent hallucination who follows you around and offers you rationality advice and points out fallacies in your thinking?

If I ever go insane, I hope it's like this.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 15 May 2013 11:19:37PM 13 points [-]

...just to be clear on this, you have a persistent hallucination who follows you around and offers you rationality advice and points out fallacies in your thinking?

This is strikingly similar to Epictetus' version of Stoic meditation whereby you imagine a sage to be following you around throughout the day and critiquing your thought patterns and motives while encouraging you towards greater virtue.

Comment author: SaidAchmiz 15 May 2013 11:46:05PM 13 points [-]

Related:

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

Comment author: hylleddin 25 May 2013 10:10:53PM 0 points [-]

That sounds similar. Though I'm afraid I've had difficulty finding anything about this while researching Epictetus.

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