(The correlation between a person’s score on the SAT and on the standard IQ test is very high.) A critic could point out that if we gave slots at top universities to candidates with red hair, we would quickly live in a world in which being a redhead correlated with high income, elevated status, and other positive outcomes

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy

The definition of modern development is training AI on human expertise while teaching humans to abandon expertise

— Krzyś, The Junior Developer Extinction

Engineers tend to overestimate the value of order and neatness. The only thing that really matters with a computer system is its effectiveness at performing its practical application.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire

What was most important wasn’t knowing the future—it was knowing how to react appropriately to the information available at each point in time.

— Ray Dalio, Principles

Purged of potential trigger words and phrases, is a discussion still philosophical?

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now