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There are no guarantees that things will turn out very well for anyone. A sunny disposition is not an action plan or a to-do list. “Just have faith” is a strategy that forecloses our capacity to challenge power.
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The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
Later he worked with the mathematician and logician Hermann Weyl, who taught him what a theory was: “Theories permit consciousness to ‘jump over its own shadow,’ to leave behind the given, to represent the transcendent, yet, as is self-evident, only in symbols.”
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James Gleick
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