“If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.”
― Holes
― Holes
“Sometimes I worry you'll all realise I'm ordinary," said the boy.
"Love doesn't need you to be extraordinary." said the mole.”
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
"Love doesn't need you to be extraordinary." said the mole.”
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
“Having better prediction raises the value of judgment. After all, it doesn’t help to know the likelihood of rain if you don’t know how much you like staying dry or how much you hate carrying an umbrella. Prediction machines don’t provide judgment. Only humans do, because only humans can express the relative rewards from taking different actions. As AI takes over prediction, humans will do less of the combined prediction-judgment routine of decision making and focus more on the judgment role alone.”
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
“In the end, there is the sea and the land and the news that happens between them. To spread that news, we tell each other stories. Sometimes the stories are about survival. And sometimes those stories, like the presence of the Lord, are hard to believe. Unless believing is what makes them true.”
― The Stranger in the Lifeboat
― The Stranger in the Lifeboat
“They were free to do whatever they like, to do evil, which everyone knows is the easiest thing to do.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
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