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Aaron Gertler
https://aarongertler.net
For-profit colleges today have 13 percent of all college students -- but 47 percent of student loan defaults. These schools are driving a national student debt crisis that has reached $1.2 trillion in loans and seven million people in
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“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― Mostly Sally
― Mostly Sally
“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? —AJENCIS, THE EPISTEMOLOGIES But”
― The Darkness that Comes Before
― The Darkness that Comes Before
“Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them." (From the Introduction of 1941's The Garden of Forking Paths)”
― Fictions
― Fictions
“In what weird alternative universe would that girl NOT be Sorted into Ravenclaw? If Hermione Granger didn't go to Ravenclaw then there was no good reason for Ravenclaw House to exist.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
What's the Name of That Book???
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Effective Altruists
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Recommend books, see what other people are reading, start a discussion, what have you. N.B. This group is not actively moderated and doesn't have any ...more
Aaron’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Aaron’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
466 books
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147 friends
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2,025 books
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826 books
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247 friends
890 books
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182 friends
17,844 books
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96 friends
1,670 books
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52 friends
2,229 books
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131 friends
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