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Gleb_Tsipursky comments on Open Thread March 21 - March 27, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 March 2016 06:43:55PM *  5 points [-]

His angle is social acceptance, but he's... critically undersocialized.

Being critically undersocialized in not necessarily a problem at LW :-/

I think Gleb's ambitions are broader. He wants to be the head of a large and successful charity. That would bring him a cornucopia of benefits, from social status to income.

And he is building a tower out of sticks and a runway out of mud so that the metal birds will come and bring treasure.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 24 March 2016 07:39:57PM 2 points [-]

You do realize that I am a professor and have income, right? In fact, my wife and I are the largest donors to Intentional Insights, contributing about 88% of the 42K operating budget of the organization.

My ambition always has been to spread rationality to a broad audience. Intentional Insights is just an instrumental way to get to that goal. If I see a better way of doing it, I'll abandon InIn and jump on that other opportunity :-)

Comment author: Lumifer 24 March 2016 07:57:07PM *  6 points [-]

You do realize that I am a professor and have income, right?

Yes, I do. But I don't think a state school pays a lot of money to assistant professors in humanities.

My ambition always has been...

You know what you've spent with all that weaseling around and what you're completely out of? Credibility.