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I recognize that you didn't claim a connection, but the proximity of the arguments could lead a casual reader to conclude that one exists.

I very strongly want to distance myself and my argument from the ones put forward in the video. Furthermore, I also strongly shun the rhetoric in that video that mostly reminds me of a Ben Shapiro "owns" video. I do not find that kind wall building useful or good.

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> It all comes down to the consequences of failure. If failure means homelessness, avoid failure.

I was specifically countering this assumption. Our human mind doesn't have absolute hierarchy of preferences, they might even be circular (A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C and C is preferred to A). If I asked the mountaineer, would he like to be homeless. He would say no. But his context specific wish is to die on a mountain trying to summit which contradicts his desire to not be homeless.

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