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4/ “It is a good idea to question the error rate of an expert's procedure. Do not question his procedure, only his confidence.”

3/ “The inequity comes when someone perceives as being marginally better gets the whole pie.”

2/ On forecasting: “What matters is not how often you are right, but how large your cumulative errors are.”

“You don’t habituate to learning because learning by definition is change.” — Look Again by Tali Sharon and Cass R. Sunstein.

3 — “Remember the scene: a blue hill, a cross, a crowd. Some are up on top, bespattered with blood, nailing the body on the cross; others are below, bespattered with tears, looking on. Does it not strike you that those above play the most difficult role, the most important role?”

2 — “This Christian, all-mercyfull God — the one who slowly roasts in the fires of Hell all those who rebel against him — is he not to be called the executioner? […] But, all this notwithstanding, you see, this is still the God who has been worshipped for centuries as the God of love. Absurd? No.”

6 — “We are living in an age when thinking itself is no longer a personal activity but a collective one.”

5 — “Does committing a piece of work to the digital format mean turning it over to the hive mind to do with it as it please?”

4 — “[Large language models] are a product of Industrial Age and reinforce its values. They do not create, they model.”

3 — “The less involved and aware we are of the way our technologies are programmed and program themselves, the more narrow our choices will become.”