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Simulacrum Levels are a framework for analyzing different motivations people can have for making statements. Simulacrum Level 1: Attempt to describe the world accurately. Simulacrum Level 2: Choose what to say based on what your statement will cause other people to do or believe. Simulacrum Level 3: Say things that signal membership to your ingroup. Simulacrum Level 4: Choose which group to signal membership to based on what the benefit would be for you.
Simulacrum Levels - LessWrong
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Your instinctive willingness to believe something will change along with your willingness to afliate with people who are known for believing it—quite apart from whether the belief is actually true. Some people may be reluctant to believe that God does not exist, not because there is evidence that God does exist, but rather because they are reluctant to afliate with Richard Dawkins or those darned “strident” atheists who go around publicly saying “God does not exist.”
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
I admit, just like a person cannot have no money, a person cannot have no luck. However, if you want to make a difference, you cannot wait for luck to patronize. My credo is: I do not live by God-given luck, but I do-so by planning luck. I believe that a good plan will affect luck, and in any case, it can successfully affect luck. My plan to turn competition into cooperation in the oil industry justified this.
The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
J. D. Rockefeller
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