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

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The Crystal Ball Company, Is It Tracking Down Different Versions of You?

The crystal ball company that actually is tracking down the various prisms with different versions of you, rite. So they're systematically, this is their business. They gave you the option to talk about somebody who's to talk to aversion of yourself that's substantially better off or substantially worse off than you in whatever important ways. I would definitely choose the better off one. Yav because, but again, i don't have any big regrets, you know, like, of choices i've made and where that put me. That could come back to haunt me.

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