less humans, more robots

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Here's a hot tip:

 There is no legacy. There's nothing to leave. We're all going to be gone. Our children will be gone. Our works will be dust. Our civilizations will be dust. Our planet will be dust. Our solar system will be dust. In the grand scheme of things, the Universe has been around for 10 billion years. It'll be around for another ten of billions of years.

Your life is a firefly that blinks once in a night. You're here for such a brief period of time. If you fully acknowledge the futility of what you're doing, then I think it can bring great happiness and peace because you realize that this is a game. But it's a fun game.

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No

No muscles without strength, 

friendship without trust, 

opinion without consequence, 

change without aesthetics, 

age without values, 

life without effort, 

water without thirst, 

food without nourishment, 

love without sacrifice, 

power without fairness, 

facts without rigor, 

statistics without logic, 

mathematics without proof, 

teaching without experience, 

politeness without warmth, 

values without embodiment, 

degrees without erudition, 

militarism without fortitude, 

progress without civilization, 

friendship without investment, 

virtue without risk, 

probability without ergodicity, 

wealth without exposure, 

complication without depth, 

fluency without content, 

decision without asymmetry, 

science without skepticism, 

religion without tolerance, 

and, most of all: nothing without skin in the game.

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The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding.

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Ever since we discovered that the Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

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The opposite of fascism isn’t a democratic form of socialism; it’s localism.

People not trained in modern science are programmed to thing in terms of "left" & "right", still trapped in a stone-age discourse.

They miss on the property of scaling: effect is not invariant to size of autonomous unit.

The naive political "scientists" (& other BS vendors) think superficially, in labels. They want the U.S. to not be a colony of Britain, but want Britain to be a colony of Brussels, & Nebraska to be a colony of Washington, D.C.

They don't get centralization .

Source, as always for such rants, is Taleb.

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United Kingdom Royal Navy personnel. 1945: 861,000 1955: 128,000 1970: 86,000 1991: 62,000 2017: 29,280

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Wisteria Trees in Hyogo, Japan.

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As soon as you identify with your opinions, you lose wisdom.

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It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

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