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Peter Bevelin, put it best: “I don’t want to be a great problem solver. I want to avoid problems—prevent them from happening and doing it right from the beginning.” 2 How can we do things right from the beginning? We must understand how the
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“The demands of socialism are not moral conclusions derived from the traditions that formed the extended order that made civilisation possible. Rather, they endeavour to overthrow these traditions by a rationally designed moral system whose appeal depends on the instinctual appeal of its promised consequences.”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Charles George Gordon
― Charles George Gordon
“Humans in the group; computers in the loop”
― Human-Centered AI
― Human-Centered AI
“The main point of my argument is, then, that the conflict between, on one hand, advocates of the spontaneous extended human order created by a competitive market, and on the other hand those who demand a deliberate arrangement of human interaction by central authority based on collective command over available resources is due to a factual error by the latter about how knowledge of these resources is and can be generated and utilised.”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
“To understand our civilisation, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intention but spontaneously: it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional and largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly rapidly spread by means of an evolutionary selection – the comparative increase of population and wealth – of those groups that happened to follow them.”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
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