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“I’m talking about these people who’ve ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed.
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I’ve met them, Petra. The ones who just fall unresisting into life and have regrets. I could have been the same, but I ripped the life I was set for apart at 23, and ran off to the future I wanted. I …
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I left a man and sailed an ocean and never went back. But I've not had the life I could have had although it has been an interesting one. I'm glad it worked out for you.
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I got the life I chose, not the one I was destined for, for which I am grateful. The rest is as much down to luck and privilege as hard work.
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“That man-made climate change is real, and potentially an existential threat to many communities around the world and many aspects of civilisation, is so well established as a scientific fact by this point that it seems kind of dull to run over the evidence again.”
Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

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

Yuval Noah Harari
“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

Cornelia Funke
“That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.”
Cornelia Funke, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Humans see patterns in the world, we can communicate this to other humans, and we have the capacity to imagine futures that don’t yet exist: how if we just changed this thing, then that thing would happen, and the world would be a slightly better place. The only trouble is … well, we’re not terribly good at any of those things. Any honest assessment of humanity’s previous performance on those fronts reads like a particularly brutal annual review from a boss who hates you. We imagine patterns where they don’t exist. Our communication skills are, uh, sometimes lacking. And we have an extraordinarily poor track record of failing to realise that changing this thing will also lead to the other thing, and that even worse thing, and oh God no now this thing is happening how do we stop it.”
Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

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