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Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]

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Is It Important to Take Responsibility for Something That Is Out of Character

"I think it connects to what am chang is saying in other parts of the story, where i think one reason to consider this an important thing to take responsibility for," he says. "You don't want to keep have that groove, keep getting ah, what grooves te you the water like the water will be more likely to flow there." He adds: "It's kind of ironic, if not almost paradoxical, that are taking responsibility for something that is out of character, so it doesn't subsequently become in character".

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