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“The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.”

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Paul Park, born in 1954, is an American author known for his works in the fields of novels, short stories, and poetry. His writing is characterized by its unique narrative style and profound humanistic concerns. more

“Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people."”

People Giving Mean Hard Responsibility Careful Explanation Offensive Say Anything Offended

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“Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.”

Feels School Black Lonely Suits Clown Dissent

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“The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.”

Feels Humans Doe Enough Eye Strong Grief Emotion Brain Risk Thousand Ten Paper Determination Add Release Zero Funeral Human Brain Neurotransmitters

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“If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.”

Ifs Thinking World Remember Dying Late Cancer Versions Too Late Signing Signing Up

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“Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.”

World Years Humans Littles Has Beens School Courses Realizing Brain Impossible Modern Lows Adults Corruption Plot Maps Rebellion Splits Tribes Modern World School System Savanna

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.”

Real Soul Care Universe Magic Possibility Disappointment Pouring Binding Containing Ethos

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“If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.”

Ifs Marketing Scams

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche. It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.”

Thinking Media Events Truth Is Appreciate Journalist Reports Mainstream Closest Sheer Cliche Algorithms Mainstream Media Awfulness

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

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