12 Quotes by Scott Alexander

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.

America was exhausted. The libertarians had made freedom unbearable, the evangelicals had made faith unbearable, the social justice movement had made equality unbearable, the lawyers had made justice unbearable, loud people in Uncle Sam hats had made patriotism unbearable, and the entirety of capitalism over the last two centuries had made industry unbearable. Americans were sick of all the virtues and ready for a straightforward, no-nonsense villain.

It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing.