“up and north, south and down, Ebb or Flow, we'll still drown”
Source: A Practical Guide to Evil VI
“yay 2016”
“I know words. I have the best words.”
“By the time I finally finished writing
The End of Science
, I'd concluded that people don't give a shit about science.... They don't give a shit about quantum mechanics or the Big Bang. As a mass society, our interest in those subjects is trivial. People are much more interested in making money, finding love, and attaining status and prestige. So I'm not really sure if a post-science world would be any different than the world of today.”
Source: But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).”
Source: But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“It's nice to think that the weirdos get to decide what matters about the past, since it's the weirdos who care the most.”
Source: But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?”
Source: But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“Our First Amendment rights are not given to us by the government but are rights we inherently possess. The government cannot use subsequent amendments to limit First Amendment rights. The Free Exercise Clause is both an individual and a collective liberty protecting a right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience. Therefore, we strongly support the freedom of Americans to act in accordance with their religious beliefs, not only in their houses of worship, but also in their everyday lives.”
Source: Republican Platform 2016
“So think how this might alter the memory of The Matrix: In some protracted reality, film historians will reinvestigate an extremely commercial action movie made by people who (unbeknownst to the audience) would eventually transition from male to female. Suddenly, the symbolic meaning of a universe with two worlds—one false and constructed, the other genuine and hidden—takes on an entirely new meaning.”
Source: But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“The tipping point for e-voting fraud, I think, will be when they realize it's cheaper to hire hackers than to buy campaign ads.”