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Great interview.

Yeah, it's like we've developed this objective philosophising, and then we compete with other objective philosophisers to see who's best!

Bringing the personal aspect in creates more vulnerability and riskiness, I think. It's attractive without being some kind of dopamine battle.

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Thanks Devaraj

Yes - it is riskier to share the personal stuff. Makes me see "objective" intellectual distance is as a defence mechanism

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Yes, I agree. I recognise that when I do it, it's like there's a kind of arrogance there, like I just wanna tell people how stuff is, like I'm hiding a personal insecurity or something.

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