Every time a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the ‘voice of the people,’ there is a suspicion of Ur-Fascism.
“We received a new dataset each day. Because it took time for new cases to be reported, there were fewer recent cases in each of these datasets: if someone fell ill on a Monday, they generally wouldn’t show up in the data until Wednesday or Thursday. The epidemic was still going, but these delays made it look like it was almost over.”
― The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
― The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
“This is a proposal for total capture of the national economy, making Altman functionally the king of the United States and possibly the world.”
― More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
― More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
“If you want to stop procrastinating, it may be because you realize that procrastinating is making you unhappy. Perhaps you should go directly to the project of being happy and let procrastination take care of itself.”
― The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
― The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
“What causes well-fed and secure people to work for the subjugation and immiseration of starving insecure people?”
― The Years of Rice and Salt
― The Years of Rice and Salt
“If you say you are adopting the Kaizen Way, rather than simply that you are trying to procrastinate less, you will sound like you have adopted a martial arts regimen. That’s kind of cool.”
― The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
― The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
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