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If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.

12/29/2021

Say what you will about religion, but the best adherents to it are those who make the effort to understand what they believe, beyond just believing what they are told.

— Clean Agile, Robert C. Martin

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12/28/2021

I need different names for the thingies that determine my predictions and the thingy that determines my experimental results. I call the former thingies ‘belief,’ and the latter thingy ‘reality.’

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory

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12/27/2021

We discover truth only when we are free to explore alternative ideas. We think well only when people are free to give us feedback. We develop the virtues of tolerance and open-mindedness only when we are free to hear disagreeable ideas. We develop humility when our ideas are tested in a free public arena, while self-confidence arises from those ideas that survive these tests.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

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12/26/2021

Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That’s simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people.

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

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