In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 05:06:56AM *  2 points [-]

Aaron Haspel (sorry, can't find the link):

A grudging willingness to admit error does not suffice; you have to cultivate a taste for it

Mason Hartman made a typographic meme of this at Pretty Rational.

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 05:05:56AM 3 points [-]

Aaron Haspel (sorry, can't find the link):

There is no universally acclaimed institution with a more dismal track record than marrying for love.

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 05:03:28AM 9 points [-]

Aaron Haspel (sorry, can't find the link):

Better that X guilty men go free than one innocent man be convicted. Solve for X.

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 05:02:13AM 3 points [-]

Aaron Haspel:

Guilty pleasure: something you are afraid your inferiors might like.

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 05:01:25AM 3 points [-]

Aaron Haspel (sorry, can't find the link):

Even the most disinterested truth-seeker is angling for a world of greater rewards for disinterested truth-seekers.

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 05:00:39AM 2 points [-]

Aaron Haspel (sorry, can't find the link):

Once you start to view human interaction as a contest to signal mating fitness, it becomes hard to view it as anything else.

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 04:59:42AM 15 points [-]

SlateStarCodex:

You are the moon of my life. Once unattainable, then I was on you a few times, then I lost interest and ignored you and feel sorta guilty.

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 04:59:11AM 4 points [-]

SlateStarCodex:

Plominism: The Christian heresy that salvation is neither by faith nor by works, but 50% hereditary and 50% based on non-shared environment

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 04:58:34AM 4 points [-]

SlateStarCodex:

All the world's a stage - the larval stage of a galactic supercivilization.

In response to Tweets Thread
Comment author: michaelkeenan 30 September 2014 04:55:51AM 16 points [-]

SlateStarCodex:

Had a patient today whose past medical history included "hit by trolley". Resisted urge to ask if the other ten people were okay.

View more: Prev | Next