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7. Question - Governing the Open Source Commons

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"To succeed in the world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."

Hello! The last two weeks were bustling. A group of friends associated with a new research group were in town, and we talked until my jaw grew tired. From the metaphysics of mathematics to the moral character of cryptographic work, we followed strands of heady topics that I hadn’t touched in months. And I loved it. There’s a hardening that I’ve noticed among people as they age; highly abstract questions like ‘what makes life meaningful?’ and ‘what is the nature of good?’ at some point become uncool. It feels like these questions were once considered and deemed unanswerable, and so…

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