Are you really gone claim that this is not a good post:

Thesis: Intellectuals are naturally attracted to poop because it is causally downstream of everything and so ends up having unusually high mutual information with everything, despite not causally influencing much (compared to e.g. food).

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Trying to obtain worst-case regret bounds.

Users of LessWrong, then

I did well by taking care of myself and trying to help things progress.

Issue with judging the practitioners is that practicing it may be correlated with other things that are much more harmful. Like all the talk about how single parenthood is supposedly bad for you, but then it doesn't hold up to more careful scrutiny afaik.

Autism is caused by not having access to those markets.

Pathogenic bacteria aren't actually optimized to kill you, because they need to exploit you. The pathogenic element occurs in order to get you to spread the bacterion to other hosts.