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• There is light in the world, and it is us!
• That which the truth nourishes should thrive.
• If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it…
• Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea…
• The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation…
• The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly,…
• If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit…
• There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it…
• Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on…
• You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
• Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak…
• I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how…

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