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I soon grew disillusioned, concluding that economics was... intellectual prostitution... rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.

— Max Tegmark Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)

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I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

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We have to get away from this idea today with some fact-checking sites which might themselves have an agenda and you just trust it because of its reputation. You want to have these sort of systems [where] they earn your trust and that is completely transparent.

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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)

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