Yes. I also take it as a warning against hyperbolic discounting.
I'm a little bemused by the fact that my karma dropped, shortly after this, by exactly twice the then-current score of the great-grandparent. The precision confuses me at least as much as the magnitude.
Out of all the possible things that might have happened this month for which you would have surprisedly noticed that they had only a 1% chance of happening, how many have actually happened?
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: