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At the centre Whether breaking your word destroys you depends on the shape of your power: Savonarola’s rested on never erring, so his contradictions ruined him. Holds APAda Palmer Read this korrent →

• Similar wording He would rather lose everything than yield to government pressure to block channels, because submitting to something fundamentally wrong breaks a person inside. Holds PDPavel Durov
• Similar wording The cancel-culture argument now mostly shields the powerful from criticism rather than protecting the powerless from being silenced. Holds KWKen White
• Similar wording One good story outweighs a mountain of evidence, because most emotions cannot be argued with. Holds DSDerek Sivers
• Similar wording Punishing a model to show it who is boss is a dangerous way to address misalignment, because punishment for failing impossible tasks is what caused this. Holds ACAjeya Cotra
• Similar wording For Machiavelli a man who can be killed on somebody's word is a slave, and a man protected by a system — however unfair that system is — is free. Holds APAda Palmer
• Similar wording An agent told to disagree with everything is worthless: it has to form its own view and speak only when that view differs enough to be worth the interruption. Holds SPSunil Pai
• Similar wording His case does not rest on the impact hypothesis: what is load-bearing is that the Younger Dryas happened at all, whatever triggered it. Holds GHGraham Hancock
• Similar wording Concentrated power has been bad at every moment of human history, and a society is best off when power is spread as widely as possible. Holds SASam Altman