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  1. “Please do perspective. Perspective. Having said that, I think part of what brings meaning to my life is things like this where we think about these things with people who are really, really, really on the ball and we get to connect with these people, that certainly brings me meetings in my life, human connection.”

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  2. “The first thing I'd like to say is that I think part of when we talk about the meaning of life, part of it is the fact that we get to struggle with this question and we get to do it together for a long time. And we sometimes I think it's accepting that there's no meaning at all. And sometimes I think it's accepting that Or even just parsing the phrase and thinking about the meaning of life. I sometimes look, I'm very young. Again, I hope that anything I say now is going to be very different in the future because I think life has so many meanings that It'll be crazy to see what I think in 20 years about the meaning of life.”

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  3. “I realized that there's an end, and I realized that there are things I believe, and things that I believe that might not be so overtly popular, but that I truly think make the world a better place. And in spite of what I Basically, if my conditions provided, I wanted to make something that I wanted to do something that would make me feel sort of whole in that way.”

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  4. “Every 18 year old has feelings about their body, man or woman. And, you know, just seeing this, it's like you're watching sort of death transpire. And you're also very fatigued because your heart's not at peak condition. And you're thinking about the future. And a lot of the things you enjoy have kind of been stripped away from you And I took up a meditation practice, like started with like five minutes a day. At my peak, I was at like 40 minutes a day, kept it up consistently for about two years. And I started thinking about like, what do I want to do? And what do I care about? And to get to your point, I think you were asking how this carry forward, right? I think”

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  5. “Something else that is worth noting is that I, for the next year, couldn't walk to my classes. So I get to yell, they put me in a medical single alone, and I have to get shuttled to all my classes. I had to ask a few professors to even move classes so I could actually get there. I can't move my book. I can't lift my book bags. I can't walk upstairs. I spent like 12 hours a day in my dorm room just like staring at the walls and more so than that all this I got to watch my body like deteriorate and like the muscle like fall off of it because I was I was taking these pills and they're kind of catabolic and for an 18 year old I mean I think”

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  6. “And so I'm sitting in my, they admit me into the hospital. I'm in my bed for about three weeks. And I'm just standing there. And I had this moment also that I remember very specifically where I was in so much pain that like I was crying not out of emotional standpoint but actually just purely out of the pain itself like I could feel my heart in my chest and when I leaned back I felt it touch my rib cage and feel horrible so I couldn't go to sleep and lean back I had to lean forward all throughout the night right and I'm feeling my and I'm feeling my chest I'm feeling this terrible pain in my chest and I'm crying unstoppably and I mean also maybe I should mention that at the time I was someone who like refused to take in anything into my body that wasn't natural and so a lot of the time I tried to be unmedicated eventually I didn't allow them to add a little medication to my body but there's just so much uncertainty and pain and the first time I had to come to terms with mortality”

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  7. “And that was sort of paint I never felt before. I suppose as an athlete you're used to dealing with pain. So I told my parents and immediately we hopped back in the car, we go up to the same hospital as that six hours ago and they initially didn't want to let me in and I was like, I have chest pain they're like, oh, come in because they're like you're a healthy guy. Wait your turn. I'm like, no, you don't understand. I have like a pain in my chest. And then they let me in. They start doing tests on me. They put something in my back, which is really scary. It's a huge needle. And I'm smiling because it's like one of the ways I reduce stress, I guess, or deal with this sort of thing and make light of it. But like know that, you know, it was definitely very scary in the moment. Shocking and scary. And they go and they do a bunch of tests and they determine that a virus attacked my heart and I had myocarditis and pericarditis. And they said I had maybe 25 to 35 percent chance at one point of dying.”

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  8. “And then at one point I look at my arms and they're like covered in this red splotchy stuff. Yeah, and I'm like, and she's like, yeah, we have to go. And so I go there, and they're like, you have Scarlet Fever. And they're like, there's nothing we can do. You should probably just go back home. So I go back home six hours later. I wake up in the morning. They let me out of like 3 a.m. They let me, I come home in the morning and I feel this like a spear through my chest. I never felt anything like it. And it was very disconcerting when you have a, because we're all used to different sorts of pain, right?”

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  9. “It's just how young I am before I went off to college because otherwise I might never get it. And I'm going back and I successfully got my driver's license Brahem. And I go back to my house and I decide I don't want to drive back because I just feel so sick. Like things are spinning. I have the worst headache. I come home. I run right into my bed and feeling really sick to the point where I even ask my mom who is the doctor. I'm like, should I go to the hospital? And she's like, you can just wait it out. I'm sure it'll get better. Young help. I like your mom.”

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  10. “Yeah, so on mortality, right? About three years ago, four years ago now, I was excited to go to Yale. I was playing six hours of squash a day, which squash is a sport I love so much, and I was really getting a lot better, and I was even thinking I could maybe walk onto the Yel team. And I woke up one day. I felt really, really sick. I went and I decided not to go to squash that day. And I know. I wanted to. I almost did. And you'll see how this story turns out. You'll decide if I made the right choice. Not to go to this question today, and I decided to get my driver's license, or I had to get my driver's license because I wanted to get driver's license before I.”

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  11. “Of internal censure, what role does it play? And how do we allow our creative minds to be creative? And yet how do we still become youthful? And it's funny that a video game could have this in.”

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  12. “Gets to the heart of a lot of the things that we've been talking about, which is the creative mind. The game can be interpreted in a lot of ways in a feminist way. It could be interpreted as story of friends. It could be interpreted as the story of critics versus a creative, the way I like to interpret it, and I don't want to give out away too much, is the story of the creative part of your mind that creates just for the sake of creating, meaning the part that creates for no rhyme or reason or clear meaning. It's almost ethereal versus the part that's, you could call it the editor. You could call it the pragmatist. You could call it the necessary force of ego in our lives. We can't totally be egoist, right? But we need to be egalist to be creative. And how that sort of...”

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  13. “Yeah, I'll mention it's actually really in keeping with what we've been talking about. It's the beginner's guide, which is made by the same guy, Davy Rendon, who made the Stanley parable, which I briefly saw you. I just clicked the video and then I went to sleep. It was like 2 a.m. And then, but I briefly saw that you were looking at It's a game that is better treated as art, and I think. I won't claim to understand the creator because that would be a cardinal sin to me as a creative person. But”

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  14. “Never said that because they got it, they understood that that was my path. And they might be skeptical. They might be like, I mean, one of my friends I remember told me like, I was always like taken aback about why you were so certain this would work out. And he's like, I finally got it once I saw it popping off. But before that, I just didn't get it. But like, he still supported me. And I think it's a really good signal. And actually, just the fact of going through this process has made me socially feel so much more connected. And I've somewhat consolidated my social life to some degree, but it's so much more vulnerable, connected. And that's part of the creative process I have to thank for that, I think.”

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  15. “And so many blank page. So many people would like to tell me, would encourage me either blatantly or through implicit means to basically take the Apple Seriously. A good signal, by the way. It's a good thing because my really close friends, the ones who have always sported me”

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  16. “It's really painful, and it's not something I would recommend for every part of it. But for what it did in my life at the time, it also kind of normalized, I don't know, part of my coming of age story is a part of it's about realizing that I'm a creative person and person who needs to create. That's sort of a God-given thing, I think, for a lot of people, but it's something that I don't really feel like I can live without. And part of it was realizing that even within some of these more rigid structures, it's okay that I don't sort of fit in with them and to hear about the struggles of other creatives was something for my own self-esteem and my own growing up that was really important to me. So I don't think the book itself might be perfect, but for what it did for my life, it was really impactful.”

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  17. “You just roll with it, right? And that's sort of what happens when you have three hour conversations with people is. You can only have so much scripted or societally constructed. Get to the real you”

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  18. “I guess I'll say I really like the book The War of Art, which is a book about creative resistance and the creative struggle and what it means to be creative. And part of what I see in this conversation and what you're doing, Lex, is so much of the war of arts idea is that you just keep writing and writing and writing until you get to the new crap.”

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  19. “He's a good guy, right? And we were doing some math together. We were doing something on discrepancy for those of you who really care about math. So combinatorics. And he just turns to me and he's like, I think you could do it. Like, what do you mean you think I could do? He's like, I think you could do it. I was like, really? But I respected this guy so much, his name was Young Duck. Shout out to Young Duck. I respected this guy so much that I was like, if Young Duck says I can do it and Young Duck is a legit genius and he knows and he knows me because we were in two classes together and we spent a lot of time together, if he thinks I can do it, then who am I to say I can't do it?”

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  20. “Could be aim point. One thing that I think played a pretty pivotal role and I've never really mentioned this, he might not even know the person about to tell you about in sort of me actually going out and making Librex was that I was taking this graduate level math class my sophomore year and I met this PhD student who is also in it and had considerable citations and also startup experience and I think he actually ended up being the CTO of a unicorn later on. I've sort of lost touch with him but we're still Facebook friends as it is in the 21st century And I was in a class and I was telling him I really want to, I really want to make this thing, but I have no technical background. And he disguised a computer genius. He worked under Dan Spielmann.”

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  21. “But I think it's really interesting you make that connection between startup advice and your parents because it's the exact same sort of mechanism where when you're young, your parents are usually like right. Right, and the experts are usually right. And, you know, if you listen to them and you follow their orders, you're going to go to a school like Yale. Yeah. And at a certain point, Stops making sense, and I've seen my friends at Yale go down paths because they just continued listening to their parents that I know in their heart of hearts is not the right path for them.”

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  22. “That's the worst kind If it sounds really good, that just means it's an earworm. Like that's like a song that you hear on the radio and then you're like, you're humming it in the car and it's like it's the same thing, the more the better it sounds, the more skeptical.”

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  23. “The only way you can succeed because if they knew what they were doing, they would have built it themselves. And what's especially hard is people go, oh, of course, you know, I'll listen to people's, I'll listen to their advice, but I'll know why it's wrong. And then I'll do my own thing. And that sounds great in the abstract, but sometimes you can't always even put your finger on why they're wrong. And I think to have the conviction to say, you're wrong and I can't tell you why, but I still think I'm right. A rare thing, especially at like it's very counterintuitive, and you might even say it's hubris or. But I think it's necessary because a lot of these things are not things that you can really put into words until you see them in action. Like a lot of them are kind of happy accidents.”

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  24. “That's the hardest part, I think, for young people. And it's the thing when people, like I help yellies all the time who ask, like I never turn down when a founder asks me and have a conversation, I never turn it down. I'm always there for them. And the number one thing I worry about is that at Yale, we're taught implicitly and explicitly that you listen to the adult in the room, you listen to the person with the highest, you know, pay grade. Devastating because that's how innovation dies, and you don't.”

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  25. “And you're going to have to ride those highs and lows, and you have to believe in what you're doing. But if you have that feeling, what I would say is listen to as few people as possible because people are experts in domains, but when it comes to what's hot and what makes sense in a social context. You are the authority as a young person who's going through these things and living in your sort of milieu. And I mean, I've talked to at this point, you know, so many experts, experts So many investors, VCs. You'd be amazed at the advice I've gotten, advice I've gotten.”

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  26. “Try to keep it as narrow as possible so I can laugh as little as possible when I'm 41. And what I would say is that. If you're like a 21, 22 year old who's looking at me and being like, I want to do something like this, what I would say is you probably know better than just about anyone. And if you have a feeling in yourself that this is something that I have to do and this is something I could imagine myself doing for the next 10 years, because if you're successful, you are going to have to do it for the next 10 years. And through the ups and the downs, through the amazing interviews with Lex and through the not so amazing articles you might have with other people, right?”

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  27. “You watch the challenge He lost like a million dollars recently to. He lost a million dollars to Doug Polk. Heads up online. It's really interesting”

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  28. “But on this podcast, but the way, first of all, he democratized poker learning in like the mathematical nitty gritty, how do you get good at poker type sense to the entire world in like an unprecedented way. He had this gift that he had learned and distilled by working with some of the greatest poker mines, and he just democratized it through his website. And I learned a ton from him. And not only that, but you just listened to him think. And it's almost like a philosophical meditation, the way that he breaks things down and thinks about these different elements and has such a holistic thought process. It's like watching a genius work. And, you know, he's also just a nice, fun, sociable guy that like you can imagine being at your dinner table. That combined”

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  29. “Say one person who I admire so much, and if I could have a dinner list of people that I want to have dinner with, like, maybe it'll happen now, actually. I would love to have dinner with him. Phil Galfont Most people probably won't know.”

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  30. “These chess players are such like, first of all, there's more an objective standard. And second of all, they're like almost like cultural figures to me. Whereas poker players are more like, they feel more like... They feel more accessible”

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  31. “Yeah, very tactical. Which is funny because I found that I was better at sort of slow. Then quick tactics, but I just, I mean, there's something beautiful about the creativity, and that's something I always latched onto as being a creative player, being a creative person. I mean, chess doesn't really reward creativity as much as a lot of other things, especially entrepreneurial pursuits, which I think is part of the reason why I sort of grew out of it. But I always was attracted to the creativity that I did see in chess.”

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  32. “In terms of the roots. Yeah, I think so. Because he's American. And, you know, he stood up against the big bad Russians at the time. You know, unfortunately, he had a very bad downfall. But for our geopolitical situation, he meant a lot. And then if you talk about compared to contemporaries, actually, I would say Paul Morphy, who is a bit of a throwback, he's one of those geniuses that was just head and shoulders above everyone else.”

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  33. “Now, if you talk about political importance, I think Bobby Fisher is, you know, he's the only one that people still go to someone on the street. They know Bobby Fisher because of what he represented, right?”

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  34. “On how you define it. But if you're talking about raw skill, like if you put everyone across time into a torment together Carlson would win. I don't think that's particularly controversial.”

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  35. “What I will say is that there was this amazing community that grew out of it, and you'd have people who were willing to stake me or have me be their horse and they're my backer. For having never met me, for Literally full Bitcoin tournaments, like full Bitcoin entry fee tournaments. And I get a percentage of the profits and they get a percentage. And to have that level of community for that degree of money, I mean, it gives you hope about the potential for, you know, humans to act in mutual best interest with a degree of trust.”

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  36. “So, you have to understand I was 14 years old, right? So, how is a 14 year old with wonderful parents who care about him? Yeah. And probably don't want him playing poker. Going to start playing poker because I wanted to challenge. I love the challenge. I love the competition. And I realized the answer was probably Bitcoin because the implications of that. And they had these free roll tournaments, which for those of you who don't know what free rolls are, there's these promotional tournaments that sites put on where they'll put like a few dollars in and then thousands of people sign up and the winners get like a dollar. And I started there and I worked my way up.”

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  37. “I haven't really kept up with him except one time there was another chess tournament when I was around 14 and I followed him into an elevator as he was leaving the chess hall like pretending that I was going to go up just because I wanted to I just wanted to talk to him and I suggested a sequel or some changes that he could that I thought he could make for his book and he was like actually I was thinking of doing the same thing which is incredibly validating to my 14 year old or 15 year old self But I really haven't kept up with him so shout out to him. And then he wrote a book called The Mathematics of Poker that I started reading. And that first of all kickstarted my interesting game theory. And second of all, in poker. So it started from chess and then poker. And I started with Bitcoin poker and had a lot of success with that, met a lot of amazing friends, learned a ton about, I mean, I think about entrepreneurship as well as taking risks, reasonable risks.”

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  38. “And after the post-mortem, not only, by the way, in chess, but just like in the way he articulates his thoughts as some people are, after post-mortem, I went and looked him up online and I found out that he was a World Series of Poker Champion. His name is Bill”

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  39. “Sure, I was a very competitive torment player growing up. USCF. So I was a competitive player, especially my age group. And that actually led me to poker. I was playing a tournament and what happens is when you're like a very strong 13 year old and you're playing locally, if you want a good match, you're ain't going to end up playing a lot of adults. And I ended up playing this mid-40s guy who we played a really strong game. He actually beat me. I still remember the game and think I should have played that move instead of that one. But after the game, we had a post-mortem, it was this me. I think I was 13 at the time and this 40-year-old hanging over this chessboard and looking over the moves. And even at that, even at my age, it occurred to me that this guy was absolutely brilliant. Yes.”

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  40. “People need the space. Especially when no one wants to go out and put their head above be the longest blade of grass on that one. Because of the stigm Need to be able to speak.”

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  41. “Exactly. I mean, especially in the AI community, I'm not necessarily a programmer. But what I will say is that People come to Lee Brexand, we always see a huge spike in users whenever there's like a tragedy on campus or something where people need closure. Recently there was a suicide just the other day on Yale's campus and people were just coming to pay respects and to say rest in peace. Also, about what might have led to an environment where people are drawn to these terrible. Results.”

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  42. “People have a natural need for closure, and it's not just, I'm not as plugged into what academics are talking about as you would be Lex, but even these.”

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  43. “Also, beyond that, I would say it has not just a pragmatic purpose, which is the silencing, but also sort of an ideological purpose, which is an linguistic purpose, which is to conflate words with unsafety and harm and violence, which is what you kind of see on a cultural linguistic level is happening all around us right now, is that this idea that words are harm is very dangerous and slippery concept. I mean, you don't have to slip that far to see why that's a problem. Once we start making words into violence and we start criminalizing words, we get into some really authoritarian territory, things that I think I mean, myself and my background. I don't know how much we have to go into it, but things that my ancestors certainly would be worried about.”

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  44. “Safe spaces are fine when they're within people's private lives, within their homes, you know, within their religious organizations. Problem becomes when the institution starts encouraging or Safe spaces because What are people being safe from? And oftentimes it seems like there's this idea that the harm that's being attempted to be mitigated is the harm of confronting opinions you disagree with, opinions you might find repugnant. If this is conflated with a need for safety, then that's where the idea of liberts education sort of dies. Of course, it's complicated, and we still want to have safe intellectual environments. The way that I hear the term safe space used today, I think it doesn't really have a place within. The intellectual context.”

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  45. “I was bothered not so much by parlour specifically being taken out of AWS, but more the fact that something that's like a highway, something that people rely on, that people build on top of, that people assume is going to be somewhat position agnostic, like a road that people drive on is becoming ideologically sort of discriminatory. I just, and of course, mind you, Amazon can do what it wants. It's a private company, and I support the rights of private companies. I just, on an ethical and sort of a deep moral level, I wonder at what point Should a company sort of be agnostic in that regard and let developers build on top of their infrastructure and where does that responsibility hold?”

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  46. “Is really available at Librex and, you know, not really communicable in 240 or 480 or whatever the number of characters the acts were bound to. And then I could talk about the history of Yik Yak if you want me to go further. They started at, I think they were at 12 schools. And then spring break it. People told their friends, look at this app. A thousand schools signed up and had active communities. They had a problem on their hands. And then the high schools come on board.”

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  47. “That doesn't allow for a tremendous amount of nuance. It doesn't allow for a tremendous amount of conversation. Librex is much more long form. And so the kind of post that you'll get on Librex can spam pages. They're like, what people are starting to realize is that they can reach a lot more people at a lot more pertinent of a time, a lot more quickly. By posting their thoughts on Librex than if they went to their school newspaper. And I think the school newspapers might be a little worried about that. But more importantly, we're connecting people in this way where long-form communication with nuance that takes into account everything that's happening in the community temporally”

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  48. “We have our standards and we have, I think above all of that, we have a mission and it's a community-based mission Yek was more of a fun app and by its own mission it was a place where people couldn't enjoy themselves and Could sort of yak. Yick yak, you know, chit chat. We have a bigger purpose than that, frankly. And I think that shows in the people who self-select be on that app, to be on LibreX, and to be on Yak, respectively. The last thing I'll say is Yik Yak was very few characters. It was a Twitter-esque platform.”

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  49. “Think it is, and that's what the research has showed. And one really powerful thing is that we can really actively control who comes in and out of our community based on the.edu verification. And we can also control who's not in our community because we have that lever where each account is associated with a.edu. So that's the first point I would put out, point out there. Second point is controlled expansion, meaning that community moderation, we have this panel that allows the moderators to see all of the highly downvoted content, all of the reported content, all the flagged content, and look through it and decide what they like and what's appropriate and what's not appropriate. And we have, we ping every moderator when there's a report, so things are taken down pretty quickly.”

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  50. “I remember I was listening to the founder of Forsham Moot talk about this, how one guy was able to basically destroy large swaths of his community.”

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