004233

‘Like most of us, I have many thoughts, hopes, fears and evaluations. And some of the time they sway me; but I remember that the aspect of my mind and awareness that finds thoughts compelling is fundamentally untrustworthy in many if not most contexts. It is...

004235

We raise our pitch when crying; these tones stand out, conveying unusual forms of information in what we might imagine is an accelerated medium or method of broadcast. Note that our technologies often employ fast, high-pitched signals (read: compression of information...

004237

“Unfortunately, luck taught me arrogance a while before consequences instructed me in humility.” — infraheard

004239

“I wasn’t taking a math degree to learn math, I was taking a math degree to see for myself to see whether the foundations of mathematics were unassailable… and it turned it out they were not.” — an anonymous informant (NB)