We accept the verdict of the past until the need of the present voices a demand to the contrary. But when a considerable number of people shall say they do not believe in the verdict of the past, we have reached a time of change.

Clarence Darrow — The Story of My Life

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The best thing for your own mind is to be exposed relentlessly to smart people who disagree with you.

Charlie Munger — Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

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We are trained to read well-crafted sentences and intellectual sounding texts as the result of effortful human work and thus pay attention to these AI written comments when we see them. But there is often no human meaning there, these posts are just meaning-shaped attention vampires that take mental effort to decode and give you no equivalent understanding in return.

Ethan Mollick

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