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I think came across SSC when somebody mentioned it somewhere in a podcast in 2019. I was pretty hooked on the list of most reads blogs at the time and kept reading the new blogs from Scott for a bit and slowly made my way to the SSC subreddit en then to the Motte, it's been years since I actually frequently read the blog itself by now. I know a fair bit about rationalism through osmosis by reading a bit of SSC and lurking on the Motte for years, but I've never identified with the movement. To be honest, I never found any rationalist except Scott himself to be an interesting read. I checked out stuff like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Lesswrong, Gwern, etc. a couple of times when it was mentioned on SSC but I never understood the appeal.
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