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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.

12/23/2021

…math can be taught in a way that stifles its beauty. Learning math as a bunch of rules without meaning-making insights or as an endless stream of repetitive problems that lack joyful resolution is a surefire way to sap desire.

— Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing

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12/21/2021

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great documenter of the slave-labour-camp horrors of the latter, once wrote that the “pitiful ideology” holding that “human beings are created for happiness” was an ideology “done in by the first blow of the work assigner’s cudgel.

— Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

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12/20/2021

In practice you can never completely eliminate reliance on authority. Good authorities are more likely to know about any counterevidence that exists and should be taken into account; a lesser authority is less likely to know this, which makes their arguments less reliable.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

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