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  "content_md": "True values have [adverse selection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection) effects. Say one person sells a share to another; both believe they’re getting the better deal (else the sale wouldn’t take place).\n\nValues are the same. If the party a value is being proposed to can’t reasonably refute it with an opposing or orthogonal stance, then a value isn’t being proposed at all.\n\nIt’s similar to Bohr’s notion that the [opposite of a deep truth](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00001812) is another deep truth. Or that indifference is the sin of art. Or how [transformations](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_(function)>) across axes function in mathematics.\n\nOne way to find these true values is via careful analysis. But there’s a quicker and more accurate method; identify via the courage required to act on or speak of them.",
  "content_html": "<p>True values have <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection\">adverse selection</a> effects. Say one person sells a share to another; both believe they’re getting the better deal (else the sale wouldn’t take place).</p>\n<p>Values are the same. If the party a value is being proposed to can’t reasonably refute it with an opposing or orthogonal stance, then a value isn’t being proposed at all.</p>\n<p>It’s similar to Bohr’s notion that the <a href=\"https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00001812\">opposite of a deep truth</a> is another deep truth. Or that indifference is the sin of art. Or how <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_(function)\">transformations</a> across axes function in mathematics.</p>\n<p>One way to find these true values is via careful analysis. But there’s a quicker and more accurate method; identify via the courage required to act on or speak of them.</p>",
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