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> What I can’t quite disentangle is whether it taught me how to get what I had always wanted or taught me what to want. This is a question that keeps coming ba

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  > "... Each one of us, of course," the Controller meditatively continued, "goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking, enormous." I think of bottles as being like filter bubbles: once one is aware filter bubbles exist, it's possible to play with moving them around. Once one is aware of the bottle and how the bottling process works, it's possible to attempt to play with it as well. Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141469 Or juxtapose http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0054%3Abook%3D2 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... > "it is clear that none of the moral virtues formed is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit." with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23867639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23867639 > "When people are born, they all start good, but even though they all start out about the same, you ought to see them after they have had time to become different from one another by picking up habits here and there!"