It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My problem isn't with actors so much as with the way they are sudden qualified to dictate stuff to the rest of us.

You are more likely to change your mind from a bad argument from someone on your initial side than a good argument from someone on the other side.

The only definition of rationality that I’ve found that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is the following: what is rational is that which allows for survival. Unlike modern theories by psychosophasters, it maps to the classical way of thinking. Anything that hinders one’s survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is, to me, irrational.