The cure

The cure is mercurial.

Humanity is the expression

Humanity is the expression of the feeling that life is too literal.

On suicide

Suicide is an act that can only be expressed in an action, not in words, not even in thought.

None of them

Although I have found so many ways back, none of them go all the way.

On change

Not all change is improvement, but there can be no improvement without change.

My hope

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).

It is dangerous

It is dangerous to think; far more dangerous to feel.

I think

I think, therefore there is thinking.

Every day

Every day we add another brick to a tomb we will never inhabit.

Advice

Seek out those who care; ostracize those who don't.

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A lamentable failure

What a lamentable failure you are if you think like people thought two thousand years ago.

Every step

Every step is a step into exile.

My history

All of my history is apocryphal.

The measure of your failure

The degree to which you can believe a lie is the measure of your failure.

Twins

Ambition and ability are twins that are sometimes hostile in utero.

If you don't know the story

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.

The effect of love upon cognition

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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A lack of imagination

Does it indicate a lack of imagination that our models of time and space don't attribute to them any means of adaptation?

Give and take

Give and take, take and give:
is this the only way to live?

It is important

It is important that you understand some of what you do. It is important that you not understand some of what you do.

Every one

Every temple is a tomb; every tomb, a temple.

Almost

Organization is almost everything.

Some things

Nothing is transcendent. Some things are epiphenomenal.

Until they are capable

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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Always

The ideological is always illogical.

Synonymous

Faith-based is synonymous with baseless.

The only thing

The choice not to love is the only thing that can damn you to eternity.

All of life

All of life is the prelude to death for the infinite all which preceded it.

On belief

To believe is unwise; to believe in, foolish.

The conditions of failure

When you have created the conditions of failure, all that is left is to prepare to fail.

That's on you

Have I not met people to prefer over AIs?  That's on you, society!

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On LLMs

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.

Done nothing

When I have said a thing, I have done nothing; but when I have done a thing, I have, somehow, done even less.

Like song

Screams are like song to the silence.

Light in the morning

Light in the morning is more beautiful, but less loved, than light at night.

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Art & poetry

Art and poetry aren’t just about expression, but about exploration.

It is easier

It is easier to get lost in a crowd than in the most ingenious labyrinth.

On Ignorance

Ignorance is not poignant.

On poetry

Poetry can be chatty, but it shouldn't just be a chat.

Are does not

Are does not imply was, does not promise will be.

We imagine & we pretend

We imagine we know where we're going while we pretend we understand where we've been.

Death

Death, however scheduled, is always the result of something going wrong.

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On regret

Small-regret is for what you didn't do.  Big-regret is for what you won't get to do.

I will always root for

I will always root for the mischievous against the devious.

Nothing

Nothing is not a thing.  Nothing is the negation of thingness.

The poorest

Some can thrive with the poorest of philosophies.

Responses to a rule

There are four possible responses to a rule: obey it; disobey it; ignore it; or change it.

Youism

Buddhism worked for Buddha, but Buddhism will not work for you. Only Youism will work for you.

You will never lose your way

You will never lose your way if you never have a way to lose.

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To be good

To be good is to try to be good, and to keep trying until you succeed, and to keep trying after you've succeeded.

Your normal

But your normal is my disaster, and vice versa.

It is true

It is true that everything matters, and it is true that nothing matters, just at different scales.

Sometimes

Sometimes something is too complicated for us to figure out. Sometimes we are too complicated to figure it out.

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