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“Our knowledge does not help us to forecast the future, but it makes us more certain that our guesses are the right ones. In other words, it makes us opinionated and lets us believe that we know and makes us feel more confident – without making our predictions more accurate.”
― Chris Carter, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Strategy

“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. —Eliezer Yudkowsky, research fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute”
― James Barrat, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

“Quantum mechanics and experiments with particles have taught us that the world is a continuous, restless swarming of things, a continuous coming to light and disappearance of ephemeral entities. A set of vibrations, as in the switched-on hippie world of the 1960s. A world of happenings, not of things. The”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“Edenists will disdain busy working people. They will portray them as heartless robots of a soulless capitalist system. They don’t understand that most of those purported robots are driven both by their rational and emotional brains. They do not represent pure reason or pure greed. Most of those who succeed in moving toward their personal and business goals have integrated their drives for forward motion and hope.”
― Todd G. Buchholz, Rush: Why We Thrive in the Rat Race