a belief is only really worthwhile if you could, in principle, be persuaded to believe otherwise

There's a point to be made here about why 'unconditional love' is unsatisfying to the extent the description as 'unconditional' is accurate.

...Oh, my mistake, it looked like they were posted a lot later than that and the ~skipped one made that look confirmed. Usually-a-week ahead is plenty of time and I'm sorry I said anything.

Could you please announce these further in advance? Especially given the reading required beforehand it's inconvenient and honestly seems a little inconsiderate.

That's a fascinating approach to characterization. What do you do, have the actors all read the appendix before they start rehearsals?

This is apparently from a play, Man and Superman, which I have never previously heard of, let alone read or seen. I suspect that, much like Oscar Wilde's plays, it is at least as much a vehicle for witty epigrams as it is an actual performance or plot.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-- George Bernard Shaw, epigram

(Inspired by part of Superintelligences will not spare Earth sunlight)

For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. But lest any ill use should afterwards arise, let the crown at the conclusion of the ceremony be demolished, and scattered among the people whose right it is.

-- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, demonstrating the Virtue of The Void

The most potent way to sacrifice your life has always been to do so one day at a time.

-- BoneyM, Divided Loyalties

I currently slightly prefer an  but that's pending further thought and discussion.

missing thought in the footnotes

We knew they were experimenting with synthetic data. We didn't know they were succeeding.