Choosing Your Unique Sensabilities over Common Sense (Gator River)
I can’t afford common sense. It gets in the way of logic and reasoning. Common sense told Billions that the Earth is flat, despite other planets being globes. It meant human flight was impossible.
Repost: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "The Fallacy of Gray"
“Everything is shades of gray, but there are shades of gray so light as to be very nearly white, and shades of gray so dark as to be very nearly black. Or even if not, we can still compare shades, and say “it is darker” or “it is lighter.””
Repost: William Brooks, "Does ‘the West’ Still Exist?"
On a more nitpicky, “who cares?’ level, the so-called West is now associated with New Zealand, Japan, Israel and other countries that are East on a traditional, Euro/US-centric map. This West/East division perpetuates that these maps are more accurate than others. West is a cardinal…
Repost: Jason Crawford, "Can submarines swim?"
Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting?
Citation Needed
Citations at the end are the, “OH! NOW I GET IT!" of writing.
Repost: Hannah Arendt, "On Forgiveness"
“Forgiving, in other words, is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly, unconditioned by the act which provoked it and therefore freeing from its consequences both the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.”
Repost: Stephen Katz, "How to Speak and Write Postmodern"
“The instability of your question leaves me with several contradictorily layered responses whose interconnectivity cannot express the logocentric coherency you seek.”
Repost: David Zucker’s 15 Rules of Comedy
David Zucker’s 15 Rules + 10 more rules = 24 Rules!