July 2010
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What is "normal"?
A quite brilliant excerpt from an essay by Paul Graham, The Acceleration of Addictiveness:
The world becomes more addictive, the two senses in which one can live a normal life will be driven ever further apart. One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery:...
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