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If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney #2)

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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A Manual for Creating Atheists

by Peter Boghossian (Goodreads Author)

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Goodreads Author)

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Tanja’s Notes & Highlights

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

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When you put a name on a door, or hang a painting on a wall, you are, in dog or wolf terms, for example, simply cocking your leg on them and leaving your personal mark there.

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Tanja’s Quotes

“In our choices lie our fate”
― Cornelia Funke, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

tags: cornelia-funke, fiction, inspirational

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“Even if popular culture has long enjoyed turning him into an object of mockery, we still tend to believe that the Nazi machine was ruthlessly efficient, and that the great dictator spent most of his time...well, dictating things. So it’s worth remembering that Hitler was actually an incompetent, lazy egomaniac and his government was an absolute clown show. In fact, this may even have helped his rise to power, as he was consistently underestimated by the German elite. Before he became chancellor, many of his opponents had dismissed him as a joke for his crude speeches and tacky rallies. He was a “pathetic dunderhead” according to one magazine editor; another wrote that his party was a “society of incompetents” and that people should not “overestimate the fairground party.”
― Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

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“Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.”
― Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

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“First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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“Indeed, many movies about artificial intelligence are so divorced from scientific reality that one suspects they are just allegories of completely different concerns. Thus the 2015 movie Ex Machina seems to be about an AI expert who falls in love with a female robot only to be duped and manipulated by her. But in reality, this is not a movie about the human fear of intelligent robots. It is a movie about the male fear of intelligent women, and in particular the fear that female liberation might lead to female domination. Whenever you see a movie about an AI in which the AI is female and the scientist is male, it’s probably a movie about feminism rather than cybernetics. For why on earth would an AI have a sexual or a gender identity? Sex is a characteristic of organic multicellular beings. What can it possibly mean for a non-organic cybernetic being?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

tags: ex-machina, science-fiction

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