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Athe damns all those, and only those, who are excessively confident that Athe has any specific quality, including the quality of existence,

One day a clever, itinerant fox came upon a vineyard. Being unfamiliar with the local customs, and not wanting to make a fool of himself, he

For a lot of serious charitable causes, people expend tremendous resources on 'raising awareness' which probably, on net, accomplishes littl

Related to: simile, snobbery, adequate axioms   Writing poetry is harder than it sounds, but easy to practice. Once mastered, the emotio

It's always troubled me that the standard Turing test provides only a single-bit output, and that the human being questioned could throw the

I've been thinking about the idea of culpability. What is it for, exactly? Why did societies that use the concept win out over those who s

Currently, the comment for which I've received the most positive karma by a factor of four is a joke about institutionalized ass-rape. A sec