Every month on the month, Less Wrong has a thread where we post Deep Wisdom from the Masters. I saw that nobody did this yet for December for some reason, so I figured I could do it myself.
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* "Do not quote yourself." --Tiiba
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I can't help but ask whether you've ever found this advice personally useful, and if so, how.
A much more concrete example is cloud computing. Granted, computers don't "think," but it's a close enough analogy.
You must always keep in mind that there is no magic "cloud"- only concrete machines that other people own and keep hidden from you. People who might have very different ideas than you on such matters, as for example, privacy rights.