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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. | empiricism epistemology military-philosophy philosophy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 2e954ba | The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. | atheism empiricism nerd nerdiness nerds pitfalls-of-bad-thinking rationalism rationalists reddit white-male-privilege white-privilege wisdom wisdom-vs-nerds | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |