Human Behavior
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
Human Behavior
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.
- Carl Icahn
sari added 1mo ago
“Every group of people who think for a living is going to be sad. Ignorance is bliss. So what’s the opposite?” – Chris Rock
Prashanth Narayan added 3mo ago
“I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
phoebe added 6mo ago
‘we should never underestimate what the combination of fuddled goodwill and lack of historical knowledge can create in the way of confusion. there is a lot more than that than real ill will in the world’
sari added 8mo ago
“Some things can become true merely because we believe in them–that pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When modern economists assumed that people are innately selfish, they advocated policies that fostered self-serving behavior. When politicians convinced themselves that politics is a cynical game, that’s exactly what it became.”
― via Ru
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andrea added 9mo ago
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