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“One of the greatest joys of roleplaying games, at least for me, lies in the continuity of a long campaign: the way characters grow, change, and accumulate history over time…”
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“…no people had managed to secede from an empire since the United Provinces had revolted from Spain almost two centuries before, and no overseas colony had done so in modern times….”
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“But behind its wordless panels and oppressive silence, BLAME! is doing something quietly brilliant. It’s building one of the most ambitious fictional worlds in manga—just not in the way we’re used to.”
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“…it is always my policy to choose the least convenient, most ridiculous, circuitous route to travel from point A to point B.”
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“Magicians are wearing not just better, but fundamentally differently shaped lenses to the rest of us.”
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“Imagine for a moment the perfect organizational system.”
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“It’s a love letter to countless aspects and legends of music, art, and culture, and its passion to demonstrate this is all too clear: The Artful Escape exists to be enjoyed. As with all good love letters, it also ends on a remarkably emotional crescendo.”
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“Asking an algorithm to broaden our horizons is like having lunch with a friend who claims to be open to anything but vetoes everything you suggest.”
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“In that instant, as I stared at the gleaming fish sign and heard her words, I suddenly experienced what I later learned is called anamnesis…”
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“My second argument that the Age of AI is the Age of Philosophy hinges on the idea that now is a great time to be a human philosopher.”
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“The mischievous legacy of Johannes Trithemius, a Benedictine monk living in Germany at the turn of the 16th century, has been to make plausible the premise that everything can, and anything just might, contain a secret message.”
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“My elder daughter is two years shy of 60, and my younger daughter is 54. I like being old enough to follow the narrative of their lives.”
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“…fear about what happens when a whole bunch of people, some of whom are stupid and/or irresponsible and/or malicious, instantly level up and get really good at making cultural objects.”
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“It is a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of the business section of the bookstore…”
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“We have outgrown the distinction between the natural and the artificial. We are what we make….”
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“I don’t remember her last name, she had just turned twenty and always dressed in black…”
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“Lilly discovered that sensory deprivation did not put the brain to sleep, as many scientists had supposed…”
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An interesting theory for better government? …we should vote for a party based only on our values. The winning party is responsible for choosing an explicit mathematical function that represents how well the country is doing on its values. For example, this function might be “GDP”, or “percent of the population employed,” or “global happiness…
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Nihilism’s last gasp, and other links of the day.
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