Adrian Panghe

“The tendency to create powerful things with unintended consequences started not with the invention of the steam engine or AI but with the invention of religion. Prophets and theologians have summoned powerful spirits that were supposed to bring love and joy but occasionally ended up flooding the world with blood.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.”
― Philip Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

“Not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover.”
― Philip E. Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

“Need for cognition" is the psychological term for the tendency to engage in and enjoy hard mental slogs. [...] superforecasters score high in need-for-cognition tests.”
― Philip E. Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction