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  "thread": {
    "id": 6075,
    "subject": "Lack of Peers?? and social problems associated with\n\tintelligence",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2011-10-20T01:31:35+00:00",
    "last": "2011-10-20T19:01:44+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CAMwO0gzdmZJR0TWpDyeppvrkFKmHx88nM++=cRh53HMwFuVnsg@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
        "address": "gwern0 at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2011-10-20T01:31:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Lack of Peers?? and social problems associated with\n\tintelligence",
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          "text": "From the dual n-back mailing list:"
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          "text": "On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Dennis Peterson\n<dennisbpeterson at gmail.com> wrote:\n\nI recently saw Gene Wolfe speak at a conference. Aside from being a great\nwriter and an engineer, he's a Korean War veteran. He said he once asked a\nbunch of college students what a friend is, and they all said \"Someone who\nshares your interests, who you can talk to about interesting things, etc.\"\nHe was somewhat appalled. He said \"No. A friend is someone who will give you\na drink out of his canteen.\"\nHe went on to talk about some of the great friends he had during the\nwar...guys who had nothing in common with him, but they liked each other\nanyway and looked out for each other."
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          "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net"
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      "message_id": "<1319137304.13900.YahooMailClassic@web161805.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2011-10-20T19:01:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Lack of Peers?? and social problems associated with\n\tintelligence",
      "in_reply_to": "<CAMwO0gzdmZJR0TWpDyeppvrkFKmHx88nM++=cRh53HMwFuVnsg@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Well, sometimes the more people ostensibly have in common with you, the more you argue with them (wolfe mailing list, anyone?).  I like Wolfe's definition there."
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          "text": "--- On Wed, 10/19/11, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:\nFrom: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>\nSubject: Re: (urth) Lack of Peers? and social problems associated with intelligence\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" <urth at lists.urth.net>\nDate: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 6:31 PM\nFrom the dual n-back mailing list:\n\nOn Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Dennis Peterson\n<dennisbpeterson at gmail.com>\nwrote:"
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          "text": "I recently saw Gene Wolfe speak at a conference. Aside\nfrom being a great\nwriter and an engineer, he's a Korean War veteran. He\nsaid he once asked a\nbunch of college students what a friend is, and they\nall said \"Someone who\nshares your interests, who you can talk to about\ninteresting things, etc.\"\nHe was somewhat appalled. He said \"No. A friend is\nsomeone who will give you\na drink out of his canteen.\"\nHe went on to talk about some of the great friends he\nhad during the\nwar...guys who had nothing in common with him, but\nthey liked each other\nanyway and looked out for each other."
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          "text": "-- \ngwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net\n_______________________________________________"
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