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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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“People sometimes exaggerate this business of humility. It’s a question simply of knowing who you are, where you are, and that the world will continue exactly as it is without you.”
― Rafa
― Rafa
“Frigideiro! " said Hermione again from the desk next to him. Her water was solid ice and there were white crystals forming on the rim of her glass. She seemed to be totally intent on her own work and not at all conscious of the other students staring at her with hateful eyes, which was either (a) dangerously oblivious of her or (b) a perfectly honed performance rising to the level of fine art.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Losing is not my enemy...fear of losing is my enemy”
― Rafa
― Rafa
“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
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