e.g. maybe lose a daughter or son to the plague b/c you tried bloodletting and high mercury dosages. (in a highly realistic VR game, not irl!!!)
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have you ever seen someone do sth completely crazy, insane, and outright STUPID to try to save something that matter to them? everyone should try it some time. that way there would be more empathy and understanding for the "idiots" in the world.
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humility is the assumption that everything is rational since the building blocks of the universe seem to be so. if you extract a higher order phenomenon in a vacuum ofc it can appear to be irrational but that's only b/c you've taken it out off context!https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1351777918184112130?s=20 …
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it is in trying times that the choice is made between trust in God/Death/Unknown/whatever-comes-"after" vs pouring *everything* and *anything* into a frankenstein mockery of life. prior to this precipice everyone believes themself a True Believer.
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that is to say... the price of optimism climbs to infinity the more hopeless the situation. This can create situations where one can be willing to pay 1 Billion for 0.000001 of hope.
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note the interesting parallel in network processing. if the network ingress exceeds the processing capacity, delay approaches infinity. if too many people want IN, the price has no theoretical maximum unless there are circuit breakers. https://bit.ly/2YnguH0
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