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“I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay”
― This Book Is Full of Spiders
― This Book Is Full of Spiders
“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.”
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“To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.”
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“Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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