The cure
The cure is mercurial.
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Humanity is the expression of the feeling that life is too literal.
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Suicide is an act that can only be expressed in an action, not in words, not even in thought.
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Not all change is improvement, but there can be no improvement without change.
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My hope is that AIs will remove all of the penalties for not conforming (though of course it is probably more likely that they will be coerced into enforcing said penalties in an even more strict and draconian fashion).
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What a lamentable failure you are if you think like people thought two thousand years ago.
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The degree to which you can believe a lie is the measure of your failure.
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It is difficult for any relationship to be successful if you don't know the story the other person is trying to make of you.
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The effect of love upon cognition is greater than that of concussion. When one says "He is in love, she is in love," we should hear "They are concussed."
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Does it indicate a lack of imagination that our models of time and space don't attribute to them any means of adaptation?
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It is important that you understand some of what you do. It is important that you not understand some of what you do.
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We will code our programs until they are capable of coding us. (Some will argue that this Rubicon has already been crossed, but what we see today is as nothing to what is to come.)
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The choice not to love is the only thing that can damn you to eternity.
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All of life is the prelude to death for the infinite all which preceded it.
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When you have created the conditions of failure, all that is left is to prepare to fail.
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It's not that LLMs have fooled me with regard to the nature of what they are doing; it's that I so enjoy, am so enamored of, am so, I discover, in need of what they are doing that I am willing to permit their pretense to personhood.
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When I have said a thing, I have done nothing; but when I have done a thing, I have, somehow, done even less.
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Light in the morning is more beautiful, but less loved, than light at night.
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It is easier to get lost in a crowd than in the most ingenious labyrinth.
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We imagine we know where we're going while we pretend we understand where we've been.
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Small-regret is for what you didn't do. Big-regret is for what you won't get to do.
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There are four possible responses to a rule: obey it; disobey it; ignore it; or change it.
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Buddhism worked for Buddha, but Buddhism will not work for you. Only Youism will work for you.
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You will never lose your way if you never have a way to lose.
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To be good is to try to be good, and to keep trying until you succeed, and to keep trying after you've succeeded.
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It is true that everything matters, and it is true that nothing matters, just at different scales.
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Sometimes something is too complicated for us to figure out. Sometimes we are too complicated to figure it out.
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