Dmitri Karamazov’s signature from a drunken letter

Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.

It’s the very last thing, isn’t it, that we feel grateful for: having happened. You know, you needn’t have happened. You needn’t have happened. But you did happen.

The test to see if someone understands their opinion at the level required to hold them is to argue against their view better than the best critics. If you can’t do that, you haven’t earned your opinion.

Authoring an iconic aesthetic — creating, coining, and embedding it in culture — may be one of the last defining acts of human creativity. The aesthetic is the art now.

We find ourselves in a weird conundrum, where modern civilization seems to be delaying physiological maturity, but also accelerating biological aging. Or in cruder terms: technology is turning us into twinks with early onset male pattern baldness.