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Punoxysm comments on Open thread, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Punoxysm 27 January 2015 05:31:32AM 4 points [-]

I just read a crapton of political news for a couple years until I was completely sick of it.

I also kind of live in a bubble, in terms of economic security, such that most policy debates don't realistically impact me.

High belief in a near singularity is unnecessary.

Comment author: is4junk 28 January 2015 05:40:51AM 0 points [-]

Overdosing on politics to become desensitized is genius. However, I seem to have too high of tolerance for it.

The singularity aspect is more of a personal inconsistency I need to address. I can't think that the long term stuff doesn't matter and have a strong opinion on the long term issues.