Fiona Gettinger

“loss counts more than another. It is your loss that counts for you. It is your loss that affects you. Your loss is deep and deserves”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. How”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“More often than not, that was a tough sell. If you go to a business and tell it you can save it $50,000 per year in labor costs if it eliminates this one job, then your AI product better eliminate that entire job. Instead, what entrepreneurs found was that their product was perhaps eliminating one task in a person’s job, and that wasn’t going to be enough to save their would-be customer any meaningful labor costs. The better pitches were ones that were not focused on replacement but on value. These pitches demonstrated how an AI product could allow businesses to generate more profits by, say, supplying higher quality products to their own customers. This had the benefit of not having to demonstrate that their AI could perform a particular task at a lower cost than a person. And if that also reduced internal resistance to adopting AI, then that only made their sales task easier. The point here is that a value-enhancing approach to AI, rather than a cost-savings approach, is more likely to find real traction for AI adoption.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence