Dwarkesh

I would have liked to have been there.

I would have liked to see what I could have done in that area.

I mean, I wouldn't compare the decline of the internet to that stuff with PISA because I'm sure the internet is just like more people are coming on.

It's a less heavily selected sample.

But yeah, I...

I could have passed on the whole era where they were talking about atheism versus religion nonstop.

That was pretty crazy.

But I do hear good things about the golden age of blogging.

So I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Eliezer Yudkowsky.

I don't think he was like, I had a live journal before that, that it was going on.

First of all, it was going on less wrong that convinced me I could move to the big times.

And second of all, I just think I learned, I imported a lot of my worldview from him.

I think I was the most boring normie liberal in the world.

before encountering less wrong and i don't 100 agree with all less wrong ideas but just having things of that quality um beamed into my head and for me to react to and think about was really great and tell me about the um the fact that you could be were at some point anonymous um

Sort of.

Like, the reason half of these ancient authors are called things like Pseudo-Dionysus or Pseudo-Celsus is that you could just write something being like, oh, yeah, this is by Saint Dionysus.

And then...

I don't know, you could be anybody.

And I don't know exactly how common that was in the past.

But yeah, I agree that the internet has been a golden age for anonymity.