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Jack is Currently Reading

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The Roko's Basilisk: Support, theory and practice

by Roko's Basilisk Developers of A.I.

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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger

by Peter Bevelin

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Jack’s Quotes

“When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation

tags: psychology, speculation

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“Specific knowledge is found much more by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion. It’s not by going to school for whatever is the hottest job; it’s not by going into whatever field investors say is the hottest.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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“There is only one liberty, to come to terms with death, thereafter anything is possible.”
― Albert Camus

tags: death, existentialism, marginalia, philosophy

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“We Fremen have a saying: ‘God created Arrakis to train the faithful.’ One cannot go against the word of God.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“Most people hate psychological conflict. For this reason they avoid doing any serious thinking about difficult social issues, and they like to have such issues presented to them in simple, black-and-white terms: this is all good and that is all bad.”
― Theodore John Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future