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The page turn after a child falls asleep can be the quietest sound in a house.
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Not being able to see your own butthole seems like a serious design flaw, yet it's true of almost all animals.
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Now that AI is leeching most of the electricity all over the world, maybe these multibillion-dollar companies will finally fund real breakthroughs in power generation—like fusion at scale.
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One of the biggest problems right now is that most of people's news consumption changed from restaurant/fast food joint to waste disposal site (social media).
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If we teach an AI every thing that humanity knew till 1685 and nothing more, and have an apple fall in front of its optical sensor, the AI will never discover the laws of motion by itself.
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There are more pictures of four leaf clovers than three leaf clovers online.
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It's really unfortunate that our favorite things get worn out faster because we use them most.
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“Fine, I guess” is the best possible review for an insurance company.
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Should I worry that all the self-appointed billionaire leaders of humanity's future are building remote bunkers and fortresses for the future that they're taking us to.
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Combining AI with VR to create an open virtual world can be a great way for people to play out intrusive thoughts and learn what would be dumb ways to die in real life.
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People wear nice clothes to attract a mate but ultimately want to see them naked.
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Inside Out set in a brain with Alzheimer's would be a compelling but terrifying horror film.
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The rocks you listlessly kick in the street have existed long before any person was born and will remain long after you are forgotten.
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If Cyberdyne Systems had off-site backups, their data would have been protected in case the building blew up.
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Hot sauce companies have a financial incentive to make their products not too spicy; that way, the customers are likely to go through the bottle quicker, and need to buy more.
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The rising awareness of enshittification is reducing the efficacy of the swear word it encapsulates.
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People who can't empathize or imagine others complexly are very predictable: whatever they fear you're doing to them is what they imagine they'd do to you if they could.
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The simple act of an individual identifying something as pareidoolia is an appeal to pareidoolia itself.
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About 75% of people in the modern era live to see the turn of a century (1900, 2000, 2100, etc.), but if you're under 25 today, you probably won't.
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If aliens would visit earth, they would see the disparity between the western states and the rest of the world and would probably destroy us or never contact us again.
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Sunlight is the only notification that never needs charging.
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The world would be so much more a chaotic place if we couldn't predict the weather.
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You can never reach tomorrow, because when it arrives it's just 'today'.
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It would be hard to explain to an alien what music is.
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We used to worry about not having enough food. Now we worry about having too much of it.
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Many Darwin Awards have been won by people who were already too old to have children.
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You can tell a new habit is real when you do it on a bad day.
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Gamblers would get better odds if they just made bets with each other.
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You are very buoyant and wouldn’t need a life vest if you decide to go for a swim after a laparoscopy as they inflate your abdominal cavity with air.
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Conversation, Copulation, Satiation, Restoration, Iteration - is there much more to a romantic relationship?
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