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“One problem is that platforms like YouTube, as well as Facebook and Twitter, derive their income from clicks and viewing time, not from user enjoyment. So an AI that sucks people into addictive conspiracy-theory vortexes may be optimizing correctly, at least as far as its corporation is concerned. Without some form of moral oversight, corporations can sometimes act like AIs with faulty reward functions.”
― You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
― You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
“If Garrett hadn’t been so stupid, he might have known how to spare himself the heartbreak. He might have known how not to want something he so obviously couldn’t have.”
― Wake the Bones
― Wake the Bones
“The truth is a tricky issue. Rightly or wrongly, adversarial advocacy is not really an inquiry into the truth. Advocacy is about being more persuasive than your opponent. You can win, even if the evidence is stacked against you, provided that you argue better. And it’s all about winning, of course. - Justin Carew”
― Anatomy of a Scandal
― Anatomy of a Scandal
“I had surrendered and the reward was that I knew myself”
― Freshwater
― Freshwater
“He thought he’d have more time before he had to let Isaac go. He’d thought, after falling asleep with Isaac’s arm thrown heavy over his chest, his breathing easy and even in his ear, that they were finished keeping each other at arm’s length.”
― Wake the Bones
― Wake the Bones
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