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Nov 19, 2022

When people show you who they are, believe them - Maya Angelou

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Apparently, the physicist Richard Feynman did a minimal-trust exercise on brushing teeth and concluded it was bunk.

Relevant Gell-Mann video: https://youtu.be/rnMsgxIIQEE?t=166

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Thanks for that Crichton correction. Pretty funny that Holden uses tooth brushing as an example of things he takes on faith and social proof!

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