“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Death might be both too familiar and too big for most people to see it as a problem.”
— Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom on our biggest problems
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“You can engineer a prairie vole to become monogamous when it’s naturally polygamous. It’s just a single gene. Might be more complicated in humans, but perhaps not that much.”
— Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom on our biggest problems
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