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shoutout out genetically modified skeptic

shoutout to darknet diaries

Checked the index: Lesswrong, Overcoming Bias, Slatestarcodex, Julia Galef, Robin Hanson, Eliezer Yudkowsky are referenced.

Was recommended. I see various edition updates up to 2012, but isn't there a newer standard reference? Or is this really still THE childcare bible?

Impressive thesis that marketing is fundamental to modern times. Should've read this sooner.

"Plague is an old, familiar enemy. And so, in 2020, a plague once again appeared."

I guess because I absorb material better in text form, now some of those PBS Spacetime videos are starting to make sense.

Morbid curiosity brought me here. Obviously there's no such thing as a "Checkmate, Trumpers!" Remember when Michael Wolff was saying Fire and Fury would bring down the Trump presidency?

got into this because i loved the memory palace stuff in Love & Sleep, but there's almost none of that in this book. so that's disappointing.

only 20 pages in, but god, it's good

hated The Peripheral, but Agency feels a bit more like the old Bridge trilogy