The hypothesis underlying AI—or at least one part of AI—is that ordinary thinking, the kind that people engage in every day, is also a computational process, and one that can be studied without too much regard for who or what is doing the thinking.

— Hector J. Levesque, Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI

The progressive left has aligned itself not with Modernity but with postmodernism, which rejects objective truth as a fantasy dreamed up by naive and/or arrogantly bigoted Enlightenment thinkers who underestimated the collateral consequences of Modernity’s progress.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

…it’s hard to separate premeditated bias from accidental bias—they look the same.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity

Your working environment needs to be rich in sensory opportunities, or else it will literally cause brain damage.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

No matter how technically proficient the individual robots are at soccer, their team’s performance will improve when they can speak to each other as if they are not preprogrammed robots but autonomous agents believing they have options.

— Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, The Book of Why