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I ask the fundamental question of rationality: why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
If there is a single key to success, it is the trait of being able to make things happen in the world—willfulness, determination, execution focus, not giving up when you hit a roadblock, the ability to solve any problem that comes your way, and self-belief.
How to Be Successful
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@sama on Twitter
The mental “I” that exists in our brains wants to break free from its genetic servitude, to no longer be held captive by the Darwinian processes that got us all here. We, as intelligent individuals, want to live forever and to preserve our society. We want to escape from the evolutionary forces that created us.
A Thousand Brains_ A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
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