Author of quotes: Everything sucks

And it is impossible to become someone new without mourning the loss of one's former self.

Is Artificial Intelligence a Potential Threat? Undoubtedly. But from a moral point of view, we throw stones in a glass house. What do we know about ethics, humane treatment of animals, the environment or each other? That's right, almost nothing. In matters of morality, mankind has done nothing but disgrace throughout history. Superintelligent machines are likely to be able to comprehend life and death, creation and destruction at a much higher level than we have ever been able to.

The world is ruled by feelings. And if you give the average person a bottomless reservoir of human wisdom (we are talking about the Internet), he will not draw from it information that contradicts his deepest beliefs. He will not look there for what is true, but unpleasant. Most of us will look for something that is pleasant, albeit wrong.

Death is psychologically necessary for us because it creates incentives. We have a lot to lose. It is impossible to understand the value of something until you feel the fear of losing it. Otherwise, you will not know what you are ready to fight for, and what you can sacrifice and sacrifice. Pain is the exchange rate of our values. Without the pain of loss (or potential loss), it is impossible to determine the value of something.

Suffering in the pre-scientific world was not only a generally accepted fact - it was also extolled. The philosophers of Antiquity did not see happiness as a virtue. On the contrary, they considered self-denial to be a virtue, because it was pleasant to enjoy life, it was dangerous. In the truest sense: it was only necessary for some asshole to relax, and after two minutes half the village burned out.

Suffering is the fundamental constant of life. And a person adjusts his perception and his expectations to ensure that they correspond to a given dose of suffering. In other words, no matter what sunny day falls to us, our consciousness will always finish drawing a little clouds in the sky and still slightly upset.

Suffering can soften, it can change shape, it can be less disastrous next time. But it won't go anywhere. It is part of us. It is we.

Leaders need their followers to always be dissatisfied with something - their entire business rests on this. If everything around is fine and wonderful, no one will follow you into the bright future.

Hope doesn't need statistics. She doesn't care about the downward trend in gun homicides or fatal car accidents.
Hope doesn't care about the problems that have already been solved. She was concerned about problems that still needed to be addressed.

In fact, we are the most protected and prosperous people in the history of the world, but for all that we feel as never hopeless. Life improves and we become more desperate. This is the paradox of success.

But this book is not about hope. It's about what our whole life is a complete ass. So huge that we are the happy owners of free Wi-Fi and blankets with sleeves - can't even imagine the whole scale of it.

To become an adult is to learn how to do the right thing solely because it is right.

If you have to persuade a man to love you is not love. If you have to beg for respect, you will never be respected. If you have to prove that you can trust, this trust is not and will not.