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If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.

— Ann Leckie Ancillary Justice (2013)

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I don’t confuse abstract philosophical concepts with reality.

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