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Perfection should not stand in the way of excellence

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The arts are compensation for disbelief

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Cathedrals are not built by the sea

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Every man has within himself the entire human condition

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Everyday I fail the marshmellow test

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I’m 90% sure that’s 100% wrong

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How to make a valid inference

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We have virtue signaling, and vice signaling

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Optimization isn’t well defined anymore. What we want to do is maximise robustness, or survivability, in the face of an ill-defined future. And that in turn puts a premium on becoming aware of non-linear relationships and causal pathways as best we can. You observe the world very carefully, and don’t expect circumstances to last

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It's not what you do. It's what you don't do. It's not what you increase. It's what you decrease. It's not what you multiply. It's what you reduce. It's not what benefits. It's what harms. It's not what you add. It's what you subtract. Not via positiva. Via negativa

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Here's my advice, don't take advice from people that offer advice. That's my advice.

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Conspiracy theorizing is a disease that affects people smart enough to detect a pattern, but not smart enough to not get fooled by random arrangements.

However, the only thing dumber than believing in conspiracy theories is believing in none.  The inability to recognize that people in power plan to do things, cover it up and use PR strategies to conceal the truth (also known as a conspiracy theory) is delusional.

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They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.

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The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

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The best explaination for the good old days is a bad memory

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The past is another country

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What can be said at all can be said clearly, whereof one cannot speak, one must pass over in silence