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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by 015a on Monday October 07, 2024 @02:42PM (#41769455)
Are you Scott Alexander? https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/12yn28h/com...
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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by tb_technical on Monday October 07, 2024 @02:44PM (#41769473)
No, and I don't know who he is either.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by analogwzrd on Monday October 07, 2024 @03:15PM (#41769854)
Is this some kind of test?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by tb_technical on Monday October 07, 2024 @03:33PM (#41770021)
No I have no idea what any of this is about
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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by 015a on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:01PM (#41771524)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex

Its at least a bit interesting that this idea that "Ayn Rand exists as a roundabout litmus test for assholes" is quite weird, one I've never heard before, except from him. To arrive independently at the exact same, weird conclusion, there must be something to it.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by tb_technical on Monday October 07, 2024 @07:50PM (#41772357)
If you want to believe that I'm this person there's nothing I can say to dissuade you.

But I'm not him.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by 015a on Monday October 07, 2024 @10:07PM (#41773157)
... no one said that.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by teapot7 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:21AM (#41774568)
"Ayn Rand exists as a roundabout litmus test for assholes" is a pretty widely held idea. I've never read a book of hers, but the extracts I've read... well, I can see why people say that.
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