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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Eliza was a virtual entity designed to feign humanity, and proof of how little you really needed to generate empathy in the human mind. Just like seeing faces in objects, people would read personalities into anything that spoke to them.
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
I can not eat, I can not drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life.
But have the integrity to deliver your “because” very sparingly; try to limit it to situations where the “because” is derived from experiments, not backward-looking history.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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