Thoughts are thoughts and that’s all they are.
~ Walter Kirn
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Daily Archives: November 4, 2024
Campus Life at the
London School of Economics
Campus Life at the
University of Tampa
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The hardest thing I ever did was keep my temper at that time.
~ George C. Marshall
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~ H. L. Mencken
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Campus Life at the
University of Texas at Dallas
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The best way to improve capitalism is to enable everyone to benefit from it directly as an equity owner. This is not a new idea, but it will be newly feasible as AI grows more powerful, because there will be dramatically more wealth to go around. The two dominant sources of wealth will be: (1) companies, particularly ones that make use of AI, and (2) land, which has a fixed supply.
~ Sam Altman
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