Too few prisoners are helped to ask the big questions about their purpose in life, which ancient Greek thought answers richly.

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• Philosophy should be studied for the sake of its questions, not for definite answers, which can rarely be known to be true BRBertrand Russellc. 1912
• The value of philosophy lies largely in its uncertainty; without it a person stays imprisoned in common-sense prejudice BRBertrand Russellc. 1912
• To reward the instinct that a new idea is worth having, training would have to score the smallness of the concepts a solution needs, not just whether it solved the problem. GSGrant Sanderson30 Jun 2026
• The moral theory underneath longtermism treats people as containers of value rather than as the point of it, which is why creating more of them counts as making the universe better. ÉTÉmile P. Torres19 Oct 2021
• It matters more to create an environment where people can be their most excellent selves than to prescribe their precise moves. TLTobias Lütke18 Jan 2026

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