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What is this supposed to mean? That you don't know other big numbers?
No, rationalism isn't centrally about pushing oneselves to change. Where did you get that idea?
Oh come on. You know what I meant with the first part. There's no number of deaths in history comparable to this number.
Where did I get that idea? Frequently quoted on this site is, "Not every change is improvement, but improvement starts with a change" or something to that liking. This site is all about mitigating cognitive biases as well as related fields, so it IS about change. Learning about biases and mitigating them is all about change. Or maybe I was under the false assumption that the people wanted to mitigate the biases and in reality they just want to learn about them.