when people have limited or nonexistent emotional responses to situations, whether through injury or congenital defect, their decision making is seriously compromised.

— Alan Jacobs, How to Think

There is a weak and inconsistent association between testosterone levels and aggression in [human] adults, and . . . administration of testosterone to volunteers typically does not increase their aggression.

— Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave

…the ever-increasing efficiency of capitalist exploitation inevitably decreases the rate of profit, and that decreased rate of profit leads to monopolies.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

…thanks to hindsight bias, it may feel like the cause constrains the effect, when it was merely fitted to the effect.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory

Once a critical mass of conversation is on Facebook, then it’s hard to get conversation going elsewhere. What might have started out as a choice is no longer a choice after a network effect causes a phase change.

— Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?