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

…acting like you have more status than I assign to you triggers a negative emotion, a slapdown response.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria

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

…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

…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