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Oh, I see the problem. Let me just reach in here and make these harms self-limiting, and these goods self-amplifying... There. Good to go.
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His statement that "In the long run, we are all dead!" is a classic appreciation of the importance of long lived i.e. glassy states.
the slot machine's addicted to the intermittent reward of your exuberant laughter, but uncomprehending it persists in desperate randomness
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rationality is most like a martial art in that should you study the art, you had best vow never to use it
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While I think you might have good ideas, I’m literally unable to process those sentences. Extraordinarily long.
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wow is it just me or should the Mayday PAC really be advertising Mark McKinnon's involvement better (re: only one with relevant experience)
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that is to say, consider that you may lose more in dismissing a thing for being not even wrong than in dismissing a thing as evidently wrong
when she lost her faith he said that falsehood yes feels true from inside, and in that moment she was born again
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trial by raising the sanity waterline: if you drown, you were innocently stupid, and if you float, you're just signaling
to learn that "it didn't occur to me" isn't universal shorthand for "it occurred to me along with 1000 other possibilities so I ignored it"
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PARTY TIP: be to yourself and to life so well disposed as to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal
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PARTY TIP: learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then be one of those who make things beautiful
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if you're going to claim larger expected benefits "because meta," then you should just start sponsoring weekends in Vegas on your behalf