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Wealth is the fundamental thing. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn’t need money. Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing to buy, it wouldn’t matter how much money you had.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
That isn’t how I mean it at all. When I say ‘want,’ I am not speaking of preference or passing desire. I am speaking of a life-and-death sort of want.
Direct Truth - Uncompromising, Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life
Kapil Gupta
In lists of logical fallacies, you will fnd included “the genetic fallacy”—the fallacy of attacking a belief based on someone’s causes for believing it.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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