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The reality isn’t important; what’s important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception.

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Speaker 0: It was in the first place, a direct push to a human frontier that currently doesn't exist, but it was also a pretty interesting political experiment if we could build, you know, hundreds of governments out at the sea in competition with each other. We'd end up with a really great sense after, let's say a generation or so of what really works in terms of government.

Patri Friedman // Starting Over

Anatomy of Next

Traffic engineers who use the 85th percentile method are instructed to raise the speed limit when more than 15% of drivers are driving faster than posted signs.

Designed to Fail | National Association of City Transportation Officials

nacto.org

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