Good writing, interesting topic, can't resist a couple of quotes and notes: As a part of my continuous moral degradation and the resulting increasing alignment

Good writing, interesting topic, can't resist a couple of quotes and notes: As a part of my continuous moral degradation and the resulting increasing alignment with the forces of Evil Nice opening hook. By coincidence, I'm reading Norman Mailer's The Castle in the Forest. Feels like a supplement. While the general concept was impressive on many levels, the details were unclear. That sounds like C.N. Parkinson. Perhaps crossed with "Nothing yields meaty problems like starting with the wrong assumptions." (http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html, via a comment in the 'gist' linked in yesterday's All Code is Ugly http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1343883 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1343883 )