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I’M SIMPLY SAYING THAT EVERYTHING THAT DOES HAPPEN, HAPPENS. THERE IS NO FAIR OR UNFAIR. THERE’S JUST WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN’T.”
“there is no known way, other than by the distribution of products in a competitive market, to inform individuals in what direction their several efforts must aim so as to contribute as much as possible to the total product.”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
“Making a robot that simulates what a human does has value, but I’m more attracted to making supertools that dramatically amplify human abilities by a hundred- or thousand-fold.”
― Human-Centered AI
― Human-Centered AI
“Humans in the group; computers in the loop”
― Human-Centered AI
― Human-Centered AI
“The demands of socialism are not moral conclusions derived from the traditions that formed the extended order that made civilisation possible. Rather, they endeavour to overthrow these traditions by a rationally designed moral system whose appeal depends on the instinctual appeal of its promised consequences.”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
“To understand our civilisation, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intention but spontaneously: it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional and largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly rapidly spread by means of an evolutionary selection – the comparative increase of population and wealth – of those groups that happened to follow them.”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 1)
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