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"The ants and the grasshopper" by Richard Ngo

2023/6/6
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*Inspired by *Aesop)*, *Soren Kierkegaard)*, *Robin Hanson)*, sadoeuphemist) and *Ben Hoffman)*.*One winter a grasshopper, starving and frail, approaches a colony of ants drying out their grain in the sun, to ask for food.

“Did you not store up food during the summer?” the ants ask.

“No”, says the grasshopper. “I lost track of time, because I was singing and dancing all summer long.”

The ants, disgusted, turn away and go back to work.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GJgudfEvNx8oeyffH/the-ants-and-the-grasshopper)