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Politics and Awful Art
Rick_Smith18y00

I've always felt that constraining yourself to poetry that rhymes restricts both what you can say and the artfulness with which you can say it.

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Guardians of the Gene Pool
Rick_Smith18y10

Caledonian, shouldn't you check up on who currently owns the word 'reasoning' before stating that?

I guess there must be some sort of register somewhere...

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Leaky Generalizations
Rick_Smith18y30

I hate to be a pedant (no really!), but most humans have eight fingers and two thumbs.

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Torture vs. Dust Specks
Rick_Smith18y40

Hmm, tricky one.

Do I get to pick the person who has to be tortured?

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Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
Rick_Smith18y40

AI's need Emergence too. Make sure to add some of that to the soup ;^)

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Cached Thoughts
Rick_Smith18y70

Surely if only the greatest thinkers thought it, everyone else who holds it to be true has it cached?

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We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think
Rick_Smith18y30

In the case of Divorce, the reasons cannot always be taken as evidence for the marriage having been a mistake to begin with.

Things happen and people change.

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Why I'm Blooking
Rick_Smith18y00

If you had the time, National Novel Writing Month might be a useful exercise for you!

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Rationality and the English Language
Rick_Smith18y00

Another great post.

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Say Not "Complexity"
Rick_Smith18y20

Aren't we understating the role of labels in brevity here?

Where the labelled thing is understood well enough by the labeller and listener or of trivial importance to the problem domain, don't labels contribute to cognitive economy?

I'd have said when you need to get things done, fear of wasting time is desirable rather than deadly.

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