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		mistermann on Aug 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bad News What if there's a flaw in your premise: what if their goal isn't to be a brave patriot, then what? Think of it as if you are writing code for a simulation, that way you may be intuitively more focused on avoiding bugs.

beervirus on Aug 17, 2021 [–]

What do you think the goal is?

mistermann on Aug 17, 2021 | [–]

In many cases, I doubt there's any particular goal. Who knows, this is millions of individual minds, unlike normal people I have no means of reading them.

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