Here is a good reason to be hopeful about the future: it might help you stay alive.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Could it be true, is there any good reason to believe it is true, that nobody believes they're going to undergo bodily death?

有没有任何理由相信，没人会相信自己肉体的消亡呢？

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Is it universal wisdom? Romantic psychology? We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.

是否是普遍的哲学？还是浪漫的心理？我们都不得而知，因为写作就是对每个意见，每点原创的破坏。

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All right, so this gentleman is saying... There's no dominant strategy so - Right, so this gentleman's saying, a good reason for choosing Alpha in this game is it's less risky.

很好,他说,这里没有优势策略 所以,没错,他说,选α是因为这样做风险更小

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They showed the vats of chocolate where people were stirring in things, and those evoke a lot of interesting sensations in people, a lot of interesting reactions in people because fat is inherently tasting good to us because it--there's reason for it to taste good because it provides so many calories.

人们往大桶巧克力中搅拌其他食物,这唤起了人们许多有趣的反应,这些反应很有意思,因为脂肪对人类来说是天生的美味,味道不错的原因是,脂肪提供了如此之多的热量

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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

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