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    The question is: what kind of world do we choose to leave to our children's children's children's children's cockroaches' children's children's children?

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  2. Act early if you're becoming wise slower than other people, late if you're becoming wise faster than other people.

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  3. Maybe people who try to understand every universe end up understanding the universe better than people who try to understand the universe.

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    25 Jul 2019

    Einstein's Relativity but with a new tie-breaking system.

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  5. I just read a story whose two main characters just happen to live in the same area and even talk to each other sometimes. In a world of billions, such a coincidence strains credulity. Do better, authors.

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  6. "You should harvest baboon organs" can mean "if you harvest baboon organs, good things will happen" or it can mean "if you harvest baboon organs, good things will have happened".

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  7. Every receptacle for long term information wants to become a receptacle for short term information.

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  8. The world is a more parallel thing than you can fathom.

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  9. "Horses are brown, so they can't be large." "But tree trunks are brown and they're large." "So you're saying horses are cylindrical? Ridiculous."

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  10. Some people say Saturn is a planet. But if you ask me, the real planet is Jupiter.

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  11. Crimes against personity.

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  12. People sometimes buy insurance. Therefore, whenever you have the option to pay a cost to mitigate a large but improbable harm, you should take it, regardless of the exact sizes of the cost, harm, improbability, and degree of mitigation.

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  13. (No, I don't know how orangutans treat frogs.)

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  14. Humans are as much smarter than orangutans as orangutans are smarter than frogs. Therefore, humans will treat orangutans the same way orangutans treat frogs.

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  15. The marketplace of ideas can keep being irrational longer than you can keep being taken seriously.

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  16. I tried reading "War and Peace", but I couldn't get into it because of Tolstoy's utter disregard for realism. For example, the calendar year is off by a whopping two centuries.

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  17. Acting in whatever way gives you the highest probability of winning if you get into an argument with someone who claims the universe is bad.

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  18. This also makes us underestimate the complexity of the future.

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  19. A fictional planet that's a mashup of Earth around the time of the Napoleonic Wars and Earth during the English industrial revolution.

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  20. In case any of you are looking for a complicated worldbuilding challenge.

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  21. Fun crackpot theory: what if art history, the history of science, military history, political history, economic history, religious history, the history of technological inventions, and the history of your own family tree all happened simultaneously?

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