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		YuukiRey on May 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy I submitted this because people working in technology are often quite exposed to the various sources of "slow poison" that the video alludes to. I hope that the HN crowd finds this video interesting and can relate to the submission in some way. It's nothing I didn't know but I've never seen it expressed so eloquently before.

turtleyacht on May 10, 2023 [–]

Compared with Dionysus, who could both create wine and be drunk off it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus

Or Tantalus, who beside a fruit tree or water could partake of neither:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus

Somewhere in the middle, maybe we rejoice in our progress and build a thought maze for the demon: run it out of time; sublimate; repeat.

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