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We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximize the human potential. Indeed, we have no idea what our full human potential is, because we know so little about the human mind. And yet we don’t invest much in exploring t

et le Printemps silencieux de Rachel Carson.

As Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, puts it: “We don’t have better algorithms. We just have more data.”

Ne sous-estimons jamais la bêtise humaine. Tant sur le plan personnel que collectif, les hommes sont enclins aux activités autodestructrices.

When author and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker was asked by the Crimson whether he was offended by Summers’ remarks, he replied: “The truth cannot be offensive. Perhaps the hypothesis is wrong, but how would we ever find out whether it is wrong if it is ‘offensive’ even to consider it?"

People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against traditional racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted. Traditional racism is waning, but the world is now full of “culturists.”

Homo sapiens evolved to think of people as divided into us and them. ‘Us’ was the group immediately around you, whoever you were, and ‘them’ was everyone else. In fact, no social animal is ever guided by the interests of the entire species to which it belongs. No chimpanzee cares about the interests of the chimpanzee species, no snail

It costs nothing for someone to adopt the correct term in their speech. So as a “proper” term becomes popularized and pervasive, it inevitably loses its function of distinguishing “good” people from the bad due to those who are simply trying to pass as “good.” The progressive solution to this problem is to constantly change language in order to mai