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The True Believer

Eric Hoffer

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Jack Clark recommends it
Uh Eric Hoffer, The The True Believer, which is a book on the nature of mass movements and the psychology of what causes people to have strong beliefs um which I read because I think that where AI technologists have strong beliefs and they may be part of a a strong culture that includes the word cult and so you need to understand the science and psychology behind that.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.