Quote of the Day
If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.
06/17/2023
We are horrified to discover that most people do not actually care how healthy a piece of technology is as long as it performs the function they need it to with a reasonable degree of accuracy in a timeframe that doesn’t exhaust their patience.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
06/16/2023
…acting like you have more status than I assign to you triggers a negative emotion, a slapdown response.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria
06/15/2023
If you are successful and that success translates into financial success, you can expect, at minimum, around 50% of your income and wealth to be given to other people who did not work anywhere near as hard as you.
— Aaron Clarey, Curse of the High IQ
06/14/2023
…readers of fiction are emotionally immersed in a way that readers of philosophy usually aren’t (as cognitive research confirms), so readers take the scenarios more seriously.
— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now
06/13/2023
…where free will is absent, the mind is reduced to a mere byproduct of deterministic material reality. Consciousness, including the psychological sensation of intentionality and self-awareness in general, becomes a kind of meaningless sideshow compulsively played by our irrelevant “minds”, as we are forced to call them, to interpret that which they cannot affect.
— Christopher Michael Langan, The Art of Knowing
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