David

“The game took weeks to play. During that time, all cats had to be banished from the house to prevent them from disrupting the game pieces.”
― Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

“This is why the naive view is wrong to believe that creating more powerful information technology will necessarily result in a more truthful understanding of the world. If no additional steps are taken to tilt the balance in favor of truth, an increase in the amount and speed of information is likely to swamp the relatively rare and expensive truthful accounts by much more common and cheap types of information.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“As a much more extreme example, consider Jesus.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“the knowledge underlying civilization is so widespread today that complete annihilation would be more probable than a long period of darkness followed by recovery.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future