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You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

لا أريد أن أكون اسطورا

My mother wanted a child, and she didn’t need a man to do it.

…advance or promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify.

No amount of ingenuity can ensure the construction of a successful theory. We also need luck; […]

[T]he success of science […] depends upon luck, [and more]

the virtue of rationality means the recognition and acceptance of reason as one's only source of knowledge.

Deciding ‘I should do whatever pleases me most’ [when determining what sort of life to want] would give you very little clue, because what pleases you depends on your moral judgement of what constitutes a good life, not vice versa. [I]f I ask you for advice about what objectives to pursue in life, it is no good telling me to do what […] I prefer, because I don’t know what I prefer to do until I have decided what sort of life I want to lead or how I should want the world to be.

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so _                _and magnificent, yet so vicious and_                     _?

A conspiracy theory is ▪ an explanation of observed events in current affairs and history … which ▪ alleges that those events were planned and caused in secret by powerful (or ▪ allegedly powerful) conspirators, who thereby… ▪ benefit at the expense of others, and who therefore… ▪ lie, and suppress evidence, about their secret actions, and… ▪ lie about the motives for their public actions.

we were not alone in our struggle; Indigenous Peoples around the world faced the same colonial structures, and together, we were stronger

You can slog through bleak days, resenting the relentless present, but mere words suspended in silence cannot be your salvation.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

the computable numbers include all numbers which could naturally be regarded as computable.

I also had referee problems. The referee of the paper in which I presented that proof insisted that Turing’s phrase “would naturally be regarded as computable” referred to mathematical naturalness – mathematical intuition – not nature. And so what I had proved wasn’t Turing’s conjecture.

I suggest you finish reading the book so I can review your suggestions and make any applicable edits in one go.

judging by the passage you're at, it looks like you're still pretty early on in the book. As I'm sure you will find more issues

it looks like you did tell me that [sentence], in which case the right thing to do is to credit you

the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins discovered that organisms are protective shields genes build around themselves.

[Bostrom’s book is a] Gestapo-style manual

[Bostrom’s] book is a slaveholder’s manual. To say this is not an exaggeration, nor is it metaphorical

[Bostrom’s] book is such a nauseatingly pessimistic attempt to snuff out AGI

Oxford has produced … some of the worst [intelligence research] (Nick Bostrom).

David Deutsch, whose books were some of the inspirations for this book, for tirelessly answering my many questions over the years.