Val

“He’d always stubbornly insisted he was right. Momentum. His life had been about momentum. Problem was, it was all too easy to gather momentum in the wrong direction, and it became harder and harder to change course.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“nothing is easier to sell someone than the story they want to hear.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“The thing is, the deepest truths always sound a little trite. Because we all know them, and feel foolish being reminded.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“There is a different way forward. Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be what it is today. We don’t need to accept the logic of unprecedented scale and consumption to achieve advancement and progress. So much of what our society actually needs—better health care and education, clean air and clean water, a faster transition away from fossil fuels—can be assisted and advanced with, and sometimes even necessitates, significantly smaller AI models and a diversity of other approaches. AI alone won’t be enough, either: We’ll also need more social cohesion and global cooperation, some of the very things being challenged by the existing vision of AI development.”
― Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI