Oh come on. You know what I meant with the first part.
To me the expressed sentiment feels, like talking to someone without a mass background who's impressed by big numbers and who generally knows no numbers in that category. $60 billion for example is near the NIH budget.
If I want to focus on deaths the number of bacteria that die within myself in a year is likely higher than 60 billion.
This site is all about mitigating cognitive biases as well as related fields, so it IS about change.
It's interesting that you don't defend the idea that this website is supposed to be about pushing for change in your reply but a more general one, that this website is about valuing change.
Creating internal alignment through a CFAR technique like internal double crux can lead to personal change but there's no pushing involved.
Rationalists should win. We do care about instrumental rationality. Epistemic rationality is a means to this end. Doesn't that mean "change"?
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, then it goes here.
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