Eric Silberstein > Quotes

“The idea of a network existing without the core tenets of privacy, security, and fact checking as low-level guarantees . . . it’s insanity.”
― Eric Silberstein, The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev

“One lesson of these past nine months: Nothing came together with randomness and spontaneity the way it used to. When no one gave you the benefit of the doubt, when everything took ten times as long, when you depended on others, you needed a plan, and a backup plan, and a backup to the backup.”
― Eric Silberstein

“Eighty years ago people were sticking physical devices in their ears. Those devices received digital signals and turned them into sound waves just so they could be translated into neural signals by our biological aural system.”
― Eric Silberstein, The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev

“Each group developed a different idea of what the country stood for, which was a big problem, because at heart a country is, what’s the term . . . a shared fiction, and it doesn’t work if people don’t share enough of the fiction. In a polarized environment it’s hard to stay neutral, and everyone had to declare allegiance to one team or the other.”
― Eric Silberstein, The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev

“Isaac Asimov was born in the Soviet Union to his great surprise. He moved quickly to correct the situation.”
― Eric Silberstein, The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev

“Did flat-earthers really think our planet was flat? Some did. But most didn’t. It was more like a badge of honor. A way of sticking it in the face of educated people. It’s like they were saying, I don’t care about logic, stop trying to control my thinking.”
― Eric Silberstein, The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev

“Two decades after the Internet was invented, anyone could communicate with the whole world for free. At first that seemed like a good thing. But with no arbiter of truth, it was easy to exploit the system.”
― Eric Silberstein, The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev

“They’re working on a problem set for 18.457,”
― Eric Silberstein, The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev