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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.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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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.

Mystery exists in the mind, not in reality.

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