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Humans build machines, in part, to relieve themselves from the burden of work on difficult, repetitive tasks. And yet, despite
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As you may know I have an account on Patreon, where people can sign up to donate a dollar or
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Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth
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