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“Learning is a profoundly important part of what makes us human. It is also something Good Old-Fashioned AI struggled with. The”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils at Hogwarts, there are very few people of colour and no clear explanation of why that might be. So a story that has so much to say about racism on an allegorical level at the same time depicts people of colour as marginal without exploring their marginalisation. Malorie”
― Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians.1 In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“We don’t sense mistakes coming, there’s this crucial unforeseen factor to them. So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn’t a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can’t set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there’s nothing we can do about them.”
― William Boyd, Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay