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• Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.
• Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down…
• Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to…
• Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management…
• But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.
• What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?
• What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?
• It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.
• If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its…
• If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert
• I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man…
• This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the…

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