David

“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

“we can’t read our own label from inside the jar.”
― David C. Baker, The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth

“The maximizers are already here. Any consequences too subtle to measure—environmental costs, civic discord, troubled diplomatic relations—are simply omitted from the score.”
― Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

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