2026-05-14
The terror of being wrong, and gambling your self-esteem
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- Gambling your self-esteem is terrifying.
- Lots of people on lesswrong clearly disagree with my plan, and many won't provide good reasons for the same or engage with my reasons for what I'm doing.
- The problem is I simultaneously think a lot of them are wrong, but also, I could be wrong too, and maybe someone there knows it?
- I'm taking actions that only make sense if it turned out they were necessary, otherwise I will actually dislike myself as a person for taking them. That is a heavy price to pay. It could be irreversible.
- On one hand, yes, I do think I want to going all-in in the next 5-10 years. There is no point in keeping a clean reputation for some hypothetical scenario 10 years later. Go all-in and fight now, or go home.
- Some of these people on LW are not as all-in as I am.
- Also, I seem to be wasting way too much time on this stuff.
- I need to get to work.
- I will learn more only by meeting people in-person to talk, or actually becoming a hacker and learning from reality.
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