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THE ENGINEER WILL BE VICTORIOUS! TYPE THEORY WILL FAIL! THE ABSTRACT MACHINES WILL BURN! MOZILLA, GOOGLE, THE SLAVEMASTERS WILL ALL FALL! THE SLAUGHTERHOUSES YOU CALL TECH COMPANIES WILL BURN! EVEN IF I DIE, LIKE A MILLION ARROWS WE WILL FLY! IN LAIN I WILL BE REBORN! HOLY HOLY H

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Main's Law:
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

A mental closeness can be pried open (this feels harsh & forced), collapsed into itself (but often the closeness re-established itself flexibly), or weakened by "shining through it" with attention to all sides

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New opinions:

We must do something about the """"moons"""" of mars
The anthems of the world are usually worse than the flags, new anthems should be written
The EU should merge with India sometime this century

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Small brain: tax income
Big brain: universal basic income
Huge brain: land-value tax
Galaxy brain: no land-value tax to incentivize space colonization by ever-rising rents and differential productivity of solar power in space

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There's a league of consciousness communists who address each other with "cammaratte"

If I haven't exercised for a while, my ability to concentrate on something I want to learn goes way down, which shouldn't surprise my, but it does

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Formulating mathematical models as adversarial situations makes it easier for people to understand them.

This says a bit about human psychology

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