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Ep. 5 - Plato and the Cave

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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I Don't Want to Avoid Death in Hamilton Althaut

The chance of each one of these deaths is very low. But if you pull them together, the chance that cigarette smoking will lead to a premature death is very, very high. The hyperobolic discounting blinds me to this ecause it's not very probable. Blinds me to what they share in common. And what they all have in common is a premature death. This adaptive machine actually haves me take another puff on the cigarette and sets me on the course towards cancer or emphasima. Part of what meaning and wisdom have to do is they have to wrestle with that unavoidable reality. You can't just let it run untutored,. because then you smoke the cigarette,

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