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the world is complicated. Actions we take today can have distant effects, most of them unintended. Ideas spread—sometimes slowly; other times exponentially, like viruses. People respond in unpredictable ways to incentives.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
Among the lessons of this chapter is that in interpreting social change we need to be on guard against the biases caused by the availability and representativeness heuristics. We need to recognize that transformations of public opinion generate information that would not have been available in advance. And we need to realize that where individual d
... See moreTimur Kuran • Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
We don’t want a system that cures someone’s fatal illness but then—to nullify the high impact of the cure—kills them.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn’t be of our making, but that wouldn’t occur without our action.