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We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Declaring yourself to be operating by "Crocker's Rules" means that other people are allowed to optimize their messages for information, not for being nice to you.

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Two people using Crocker's Rules should be able to communicate all relevant information in the minimum amount of time, without paraphrasing or social formatting.

The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral.

People go funny in the head when talking about politics.

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