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6fc0df9 | Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy. | war philosophy empiricism epistemology military-philosophy | Sun Tzu | |
2e954ba | The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. | wisdom rationalism rationalists reddit white-male-privilege wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness pitfalls-of-bad-thinking empiricism white-privilege atheism nerds nerd | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |