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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.

06/16/2021

It is one of the most remarkable features of the optimistic mindset that it will never accept responsibility for the effects of its own beliefs, or acknowledge the danger of the fallacies that have guided it.

— Roger Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism

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06/15/2021

Blindness to ergodicity, which we will begin to define a few paragraphs down, is indeed in my opinion the best marker separating a genuine scholar who understands something about the world from an academic hack who partakes of ritualistic paper writing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

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06/14/2021

Pure mathematicians pursue their profession with little concern for practical applications (some even claim that the more removed mathematics is from practical matters, the better for the profession).

— Eli Maor, E

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06/13/2021

The growing body of adaptive information available in the minds of other people also drove genetic evolution to create a second form of human status, called prestige, which now operates alongside the dominance status we inherited from our ape ancestors.

— Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success

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