James Walton-Fuentes
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James Walton-Fuentes
So attend to what isn't getting said in a conversation. Listen for the absence and speak to it. It will not fail you.
Martin Shaw • Courting the Wild Twin
First, review the basic argument for longtermism:
Moral status: The lives and suffering of future people and animals matter just as much as those alive today.
Numbers: The number of future people and animals who could exist is vastly larger than the number of beings alive now.
Unique leverage: Due to our special place in history, our actions could
This document presents the AWIN welfare assessment protocol for sheep. Ownership or actual possession and/or use of this document alone do not indicate capacity to carry out assessment without adequate training
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As you read, your brain is hard at work converting the raw bits of perceptual information into facts, stories, and lessons that you remember and internalize. After your eyes register the waves of light emanating from the page, your mind generates words from them. These words temporarily fill your attentional space. You then begin connecting the
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These are Adler’s four levels of reading, from simplest to most complex: elementary inspectional analytical syntopical
Peter Hollins • The Science of Self-Learning: How to Teach Yourself Anything, Learn More in Less Time, and Direct Your Own Education (Learning how to Learn Book 1)
Doris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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