…if a computer appears to be intelligent, that’s merely a reflection of the intelligence of the humans who programmed it. But what if humans’ intelligence is just a reflection of the billion-year evolutionary process that gave rise to it?

— Chris Bernhardt, Turing’s Vision

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