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This is so ridiculously bombastic, it's funny.
So what have this Great Person achieved in real life? Besides learning Ruby and writing some MtG guides? Given that he is Oh So Very Great, surely he must left his mark on the world already. Where is that mark?
So what have this Great Person achieved in real life? Besides learning Ruby and writing some MtG guides?
If you want to be a serious thinker and make your criticisms better, you really need to improve your research skills. That comment is lazy, wrong, and hostile. Curi invented Paths Forward. He invented Yes/No philosophy, which is an improvement on Popper's Critical Preferences. He founded Fallible Ideas. He kept Taking Children Seriously alive. He has written millions of words on philosophy and added a lot of clarity to ideas by Popper, Rand, Deutsch, ...