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emyo's avatar

> Often, people mourn that they are bad at retaining information.

I read that paragraph aloud to my kid and asked him what he thought. He said he wasn’t paying attention because none of it was interesting to him. Never discount tuning out as a first line of memetic defense.

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Mark Dykeman's avatar

Ah yes, this is an excellent rebuttal to Bankman-Fried's blurt. Not every book is an instruction manual for life and you can't really absorb the best bits in a good book without doing the work. Thank you!

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