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Ah, frustrating how the plot lines are converging to the year of the glad, but I guess that's part of the theme of the book - how all entertainment is unsatisfying and how we use it to distract us from reality for a bit, hoping for a conclusion, so t
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“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.”
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
“A broken heart can not be mended by flipping it over to somebody else.”
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“I have no sense of humor about losing.”
― Rafa
― Rafa
“Mathematical problems, or puzzles, are important to real mathematics (like solving real-life problems), just as fables, stories and anecdotes are important to the young in understanding real life”
― Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective
― Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective
“Losing is not my enemy...fear of losing is my enemy”
― Rafa
― Rafa
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