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As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me.

— David Deutsch

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Let me define that [wealth] in a non-parochial way as the repertoire of physical transformations that they would be capable of causing.

The Beginning of Infinity (2011)

If something is permitted by the laws of physics, then the only thing that can prevent it from being technologically possible is not knowing how.

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Genes embody knowledge about their niches. Everything of fundamental significance about the phenomenon of life depends on this property, and not on replication per se.

The Fabric of Reality (1997)

Could it be that the moral imperative not to destroy the means of correcting mistakes is the only moral imperative? That all other moral truths follow from it?

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