Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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5 years, 7 months ago

people for whom being generous comes easily

"[...] there are other people for whom being generous comes easily, without a struggle. And it's easy for them because in the past they made a lot of little decisions to be generous. It was hard for me because I've made a lot of little decisions to be selfish in the past. So I'm the reason it's har…

—p.336 Exhalation Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom (270) by Ted Chiang
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every decision you make contributes to your character

Kevin asked, "So does that mean it doesn't matter if we act like jerks?"

"It matters to the person in this branch that you're acting like a jerk to," said Zareenah.

"But what about globally? Does being a jerk in this branch increase the percentage of jerkish behavior across all branches?"

—p.328 Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom (270) by Ted Chiang
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indelibly

By fixing every detail of an insult in indelible video

—p.198 The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (185) by Ted Chiang
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loving someone means making sacrifices for them topic/heartbreak

Her objection is to Polytope's strategy for getting people to spend that time. Blue Gamma's strategy had been to make the digients lovable, while Polytope was starting with unlovable digients and using pharmaceuticals to make people love them. It seems clear to her that Blue Gamma's approach was th…

—p.165 The Lifecycle of Software Objects (62) by Ted Chiang
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but isn't owed the same obligations as a person

"We aren't looking for superintelligent employees, we're looking for superintelligent products. You're offering us the former, and I can't blame you; no one can spend as many years as you have teaching a digient and still think of it as a product. But our business isn't based on that kind of sentim…

—p.162 The Lifecycle of Software Objects (62) by Ted Chiang