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.
09/10/2022
…in the end programming is a craft you have to perfect by plying it.
— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work
09/09/2022
There is no reason to expect a generic AI to be motivated by love or hate or pride or other such common human sentiments: these complex adaptations would require deliberate expensive effort to recreate in AIs.
— Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom
09/08/2022
Why did desktop computers take over? Mainly because they had better software. And the reason microcomputer software was better was that it could be written by small companies.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters
09/07/2022
It’s implausible that the necessary know-how could be gained entirely independently by the average learner. Rather, intellectual know-how in all forms, from speaking to reading to writing to reasoning, is unlocked by sustained and repeated interactions with other minds.
— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now
09/06/2022
When something horrible happens, our spontaneous tendency is to search for a meaning. It must mean something… Even if we interpret a catastrophe as a punishment, it makes it easier, in a way, because we know it’s not just some terrifying blind force
— Astra Taylor, Examined Life
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