The Leviathan Boghos Artinian 100 words I, a human being, thrive On cells, a hundred trillion strong! They all must strictly obey Commands in the genetic tongue That I may comfortably live And unencumbered behave, While each cell I ruthlessly hold, Until the day it dies, a slave! Yet I fail to understand That I also must bear the pain, Someday, of strictly obeying The alien commands in my brain That a leviathan may live And unencumbered behave, While me he would ruthlessly hold Until the day I die, a slave!

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Brothers, love is a teacher, but a hard one to obtain: learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. In anyone, even the wicked, love can be kindled by chance.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov

Asimov’s “The Relativity of Wrong”: When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

…the promotion of viewpoint diversity is nearly as superficial and dehumanizing as the forms of indoctrination it means to replace.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

…the one who doesn’t look the part, conditional on having made a (sort of) successful career in his profession, had to have much to overcome in terms of perception. And if we are lucky enough to have people who do not look the part, it is thanks to the presence of some skin in the game, the contact with reality that filters out incompetence, as reality is blind to looks.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game