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note17vndt...
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Depends what creates the "negative entropy" that is the hallmark of biological life...
In this case clearly its the organization and health of human cells that prevent the body from becoming a rotting corpse (shifting to positive entropy regime)
N.B. - zombies dont appear to obey 2nd law as they dont seem to run out of energy
note1mg3ky...
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Perhaps good advice, but a bit brutal and unfair to the solicitor. To begin with the claim that criticism is a futile endeavor and yet judge the work and artist's character so hashly? To condemn the nec. act of shopping one's work as a sign of inferior spirit? The pettiness of returning the pages themselves like unwanted litter.
Lyn Alden · 153w
Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass. He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narrativ...
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This rings false to me because if Elon just "wanted to get everyone to like him" wouldn't he be doing what Mackenzie Bezos is doing with her money?

Namely dumping the money into fashionable and socially approved NGOs that seem to all inexorably lead to more regulation and social division.

The amount of money Mackenzie and others like Dustin Moskovitz have been dumping into these culture war starters is actually far larger than what the sum total of what "the government gave Elon". And look what that investment gave the government: a capsule that just brought back the astronauts. Flashy, sure, but it's harder to argue it's not real tangible value he focuses on creating.