…history abounds with lessons on the price of being the first, or even the second, to say that the Emperor has no clothes.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

Engineer and mathematician Adrian Bowyer first conceived the idea he calls ‘Darwinian Marxism’ in 2004 – that eventually everyone’s home will be a factory, producing anything they want (as long as it can be made out of plastic, anyway).

— Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man From the Future

Self-organization produces heterogeneity and unpredictability. It is likely come up with whole new structures, whole new ways of doing things. It requires freedom and experimentation, and a certain amount of disorder. These conditions that encourage self-organization often can be scary for individuals and threatening to power structures.

— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems

…there is certainly an argument that much of human creativity – like the products of the ‘composing’ algorithms – is just a novel combination of pre-existing ideas.

— Hannah Fry, Hello World

‘Spooky action at a distance’ works for moral judgements, too: as we saw, judging something as ‘bad’ instantly applies that same label to identical situations or behaviours, however far away they may be. So a judgement in one place has an instant impact on a twin situation even if it is a great distance away, and there is no direct connection between the two.

— Myles King, Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics