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Peter Hunt Welch
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Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say
I do not enjoy writing about technology. Aside from the shiny, birdlike emotion I get from opening a new Apple product every three years, I do not enjoy using much of modern technology. I view my phone with mistrust and resentment, even as I allow it to eat my time with distractions to recover from ...
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“the whole process and state of alienation could be short-circuited by appealing to empathy, shared knowledge, and most people’s desire to talk about themselves.”
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
“I don't believe things have a reason. A reason is a map from an arbitrary cause to an arbitrary end. Everything having a reason is the same as nothing having a reason; the only difference is we are slave to the reason in the former situation, and we forge the reason in the latter. It doesn't make a difference what the situation really is, but I would prefer to think I defined my reasons, and they exist in me and everyone I can convince to believe me.”
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
“The spiritual revelations that tell people to be nice to one another and live in harmony were unnecessary for me because I always thought that: at first just because I was nice to people and wanted them to be nice to me, now because a meaningless and unknowable universe all but demands that conscious beings care for one another as we traverse the space between ignorance. Only total ignorance of all flavors of knowledge, or an ingrained submissiveness to authority and alienation, could lead a person to think the universe is not a motion of energy that includes us all, whether they simply know it, or simply feel it.”
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
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Should a Book be Judged by the Author's Personal Morality
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If I’m not mistaken, one of the issues surrounding the GR take-down was whether a reviewer could ignore the content of a book and leave one-star and n ...more
