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Of course, you must understand, I couldn't be bothered to act. I know weepers still pretend to try, but I wasn't a weeper, at least not then. It isn't even dangerous, the teeth only sharp to its target. But it would not have been right, you know? That's the way things are now. You ignore the screams. You put on a podcast: two guys talking, two guys who are slightly cleverer than you but not too clever, who talk in such a way as to make you feel you're not some pathetic voyeur consuming a pornography of friendship but rather part of a trio, a silent co-host who hasn't been in the mood to contribute for the past 500 episodes. But some day you're gonna say something clever, clever but not too clever. And that's what I did. I put on one of my two-guys-talking podcasts. I have dozens of them. I don't even remember the name or even what they were talking about. That's not the point. That's not the point at all. They might not even be human. It might be two of them pretending to be two guys t

x The Origami Men — LessWrong The Origami Men and Other Stories Fiction Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 12 % 193 The Origami Men by Tomás B. 6th Oct 2025 19 min read 14 193 Of course, you must understand, I couldn't be bothered to act. I know weepers still pretend to try, but I wasn't a weeper, at least not then. It isn't even dangerous, the teeth only sharp to its target. But it would not have been right, you know? That's the way things are now. You ignore the screams. You put on a podcast: two guys talking, two guys who are slightly cleverer than you but not too clever, who talk in such a way as t

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