Sir, is that a space alien from the X-Files on patrol outside our post? This will be extraordinarily messy." --Jack Clark, on machine learning systems "I feel like we're back to pretending unencrypted sat feeds are private." --lucky225 "The version of me you created in your mind is not my responsibility." --Unknown "I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice." --Joseph Conrad "One of the issues that I eventually ran into on Twitter was trying to be myself and talk about the things I like to do outside of work. The Wrong Hands and the Doctor "Word salad and the digital." --Reed Black on critical theory "When Homeland Security comes up to us with an offer like that I do not think we are in the position to say no." --Jean Quan, Mayor,
Elon Online Oakland, CA "We now return you to your regularly scheduled clicky-noise." --Lyssa "There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value." --Unknown "My problem, of course, is that in the philosophy department we believe in the alignment axes moral realism/subjectivism/error theory and consequentialist/deontologist. I think I am a chaotic consequentialist." --Arenamontanus "At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, we all have to go about our business as if we were not being photographed, or we wouldn't be able to go about our business at all." --William Gibson Goodheart's Law: Once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role.