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this needs a venn diagram “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
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I don't know half the people cited at me half as well as I should like, and I like less than half the people cited at me have as well as they deserve.
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A constant source of minor friction and irritation for me is that I pretty much only explore ideas, but a lot of people seem to only explore and cite people... I'm almost never interested in 100% of what somebody else is thinking/writing about. At most it's about 10-15%.
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If 100% of what someone goes on about appears salient, it means they're hedgehogs in one of my foxholes, which means I'll most likely do a quick/rude wikipedia gloss, pick up a couple of representative nuggets and move on. Totalized mindspaces created by totalizing minds bore me.
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i see why it's a safe assumption, but still a bummer that fame leads to reading it as "hedgehogs in my foxholes" rather than "wonderful and exciting convergence in the universes of ideas and matter", which is what lesser known folks get the fortune of presuming :)
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