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That did it. “Look, I can’t waste my time here any longer. I need to get some sleep.” I put the carburetor down and got ready to leave. “How do you know you haven’t been asleep your whole life? How do you know you’re not asleep right now?” he said, watching me intently.
Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Dan Millman
Now, if you are going to highlight only one single section from this book, here is the one. The interventionista case is central to our story because it shows how absence of skin in the game has both ethical and epistemological effects (i.e., related to knowledge). We saw that interventionistas don’t learn because they are not the victims of their mistakes, and, as we hinted at with pathemata mathemata: The same mechanism of transferring risk also impedes learning. More practically, You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As Tyler walked in the sea breeze, his mind returned to a sentence from a suicide note from a kamikaze pilot to his mother that he had seen in the exhibit: Mom, I’m going to be a firefly.
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
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