LessWrong Context:

I didn’t want to write this.

Not for lack of courage—I’d meme-storm Putin's in the classroom if given half a chance. But why?

1- Too personal.
2- My life is tropical chaos: I survived the Brazilian BOPE (think a Marine post-COVID).
3- I’m dyslexic, writing in English (a crime against Grice).
4- This is LessWrong, not some Deep Web Reddit thread.

Okay, maybe a little lack of courage.

Then comes someone named Gwern. He completely ignores my thesis and simply asks:
"Tell military firefighter stories."

I was expecting some deep Bayesian analysis. Instead, I got a request for war stories. Fair enough. My first instinct was to dismiss him as an oddball—until a friend told me I was dealing with a legend of rationality. I have to admit: I nearly shit myself. His comment got more likes than the post I spent years working on.

Someone with [...]

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(00:04) LessWrong Context:

(01:39) Firefighter Context:

(02:12) The Knife:

(03:16) Simultaneously, I:

(03:25) So

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