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.
11/16/2022
Confirmation bias, status quo bias, correspondence bias, and the like are not tacked on to our reasoning; they are its very substance.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind
11/15/2022
…it’s better to rely on people you have some connection to instead of on conference talks and such, since there is a surprisingly large amount of misinformation out there.
— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle
11/14/2022
Tolerance is a principled willingness to put up with the expression and pursuit of beliefs that you know to be wrong, for the sake of some larger ideal, like freedom of inquiry or the autonomy of others in the construction of their own narrative or identity – provided, I would say, that they don’t harm others in the process.
— Christopher Butler, Postmodernism
11/13/2022
As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline-the illusion of the good old days.
— Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style
11/12/2022
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
1974 post articles, 395 pages.