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No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.

— Charles Stross Rule 34 (2011)

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Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild.

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In my experience, the best way to deal with such people is to politely agree with everything they say, then ignore them.

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