Curtis Oneal

“On climate change and other issues with moral implications, we tend to believe that everyone should care for the same self-evident reasons we do. If they don’t, we all too often assume they lack morals. But most people do have morals and are acting according to them; they’re just different from ours. And if we are aware of these differences, we can speak to them.”
― Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

“To get just an inkling of the fire we’re playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren’t particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect the entire world because they directly influence billions of people. Typically, such algorithms are designed to maximize click-through, that is, the probability that the user clicks on presented items. The solution is simply to present items that the user likes to click on, right? Wrong. The solution is to change the user’s preferences so that they become more predictable. A more predictable user can be fed items that they are likely to click on, thereby generating more revenue. People with more extreme political views tend to be more predictable in which items they will click on. (Possibly”
― Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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― Sarah Lotz, The Impossible Us

“It could be foreseen that morally he was of that sort who avoid evil through good taste, lack of decision, and want of opportunity.”
― Frank Norris, The Octopus:A story of California