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These last few years, @Jack did a really good job.
And whoever the midwits were who didn't think so have kicked him out, and now Elon thinks he's going to come in and fix some problems.
I've Now Been Asked Mult...
@yishan on Twitter
Is my intellect up to this? If so, then I'll put it to work, like a tool provided by nature. And if it isn't, then I'll turn the job over to someone who can do better-unless I have no choice.
Or I do the best I can with it, and collaborate with whoever can make use of it, to do what the community needs done. Because whatever I do-alone or with others-can aim at one thing only:
what squares with those requirements.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
In societies that are essentially social contracts (as all human societies are), freeloaders who take the benefits of the contract but avoid paying all the costs erode trust in other members of the community and quickly lead to the collapse of society. When that happens, it causes communities to fragment, and we retreat into the little clusters of people we really trust. The question that motivated this model was whether dialect might provide a quick-and-dirty guide to membership of your community, and hence of whether you could trust someone.
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