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Scott Alexander observes that people may believe they have nothing useful to say and dislike blogging even when readers like and praise their posts.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“I hear a lot of stuff from people who are like,”
“I hate writing blog posts.”
“Of course, I have nothing useful to say.”
“But then everybody seems to like”
“it and reblog”
“it and say that they're great.”Play from 2:47:10Report a misattribution
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