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Jaron Lanier Quote: “I’ve occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.”

101. “I’ve occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.”

102. “What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.”

103. “Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “If you’re old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.”

104. “If you’re old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Here’s a non-geeky framing of the same idea: What if listening to an inner voice or heeding a passion for ethics or beauty were to lead to more important work in the long term, even if it measured as less successful in the moment? What if deeply reaching a small number of people matters more than reaching everybody with nothing?”

105. “Here’s a non-geeky framing of the same idea: What if listening to an inner voice or heeding a passion for ethics or beauty were to lead to more important work in the long term, even if it measured as less successful in the moment? What if deeply reaching a small number of people matters more than reaching everybody with nothing?”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say.”

106. “Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Every power-seeking entity in the world, whether it is a government, a business, or an informal group, has gotten wise to the idea that if you can assemble information about other people, that information makes you powerful. By glorifying the tools that enable this trend as our channels of complaint, we are only amplifying our own predicament.”

107. “Every power-seeking entity in the world, whether it is a government, a business, or an informal group, has gotten wise to the idea that if you can assemble information about other people, that information makes you powerful. By glorifying the tools that enable this trend as our channels of complaint, we are only amplifying our own predicament.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “With an eBook, however, you are not a first-class commercial citizen. Instead, you have only purchased tenuous rights within someone else’s company store. You cannot resell, nor can you do anything else to treat your purchase as an investment.”

108. “With an eBook, however, you are not a first-class commercial citizen. Instead, you have only purchased tenuous rights within someone else’s company store. You cannot resell, nor can you do anything else to treat your purchase as an investment.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “The imbalanced power relationship is in your face all the time. Don’t you feel humiliated using one of the Facebook brands, like Instagram or WhatsApp? Facebook is the first public company controlled by one person.32 I mean, I don’t personally have anything against Mark Zuckerberg. It isn’t about him. But why would you subordinate a big part of your life to any one stranger?”

109. “The imbalanced power relationship is in your face all the time. Don’t you feel humiliated using one of the Facebook brands, like Instagram or WhatsApp? Facebook is the first public company controlled by one person.32 I mean, I don’t personally have anything against Mark Zuckerberg. It isn’t about him. But why would you subordinate a big part of your life to any one stranger?”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “I do real paintings, you know. I’m a little messy in the studio, so I’m a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.”

110. “I do real paintings, you know. I’m a little messy in the studio, so I’m a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they’re given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.”

111. “Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they’re given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.”

112. “The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn’t run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.”

113. “At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn’t run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Empathy2 is the fuel that runs a decent society. Without it, only dry rules and competitions for power are left.”

114. “Empathy2 is the fuel that runs a decent society. Without it, only dry rules and competitions for power are left.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Usually Google has had a way of coming up with the creepier statements, but Facebook has pulled ahead: A recent revision in its statement of purpose includes directives like assuring that “every single person has a sense of purpose and community.”5 A single company is going to see to it that every single person has a purpose, because it presumes that was lacking before. If that is not a new religion, I don’t know what is.”

115. “Usually Google has had a way of coming up with the creepier statements, but Facebook has pulled ahead: A recent revision in its statement of purpose includes directives like assuring that “every single person has a sense of purpose and community.”5 A single company is going to see to it that every single person has a purpose, because it presumes that was lacking before. If that is not a new religion, I don’t know what is.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Moral hazard has never met a more efficient amplifier than a digital network.”

116. “Moral hazard has never met a more efficient amplifier than a digital network.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “In order to make tech into something that empowers people, people have to be willing to act as if we can handle being powerful.”

117. “In order to make tech into something that empowers people, people have to be willing to act as if we can handle being powerful.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “AI is a fantasy, nothing but a story we tell about our code. It is also a cover for sloppy engineering. Making a supposed AI program that customizes a feed is less work than creating a great user interface that allows users to probe and improve what they see on their own terms – and that is so because AI has no objective criteria for success.”

118. “AI is a fantasy, nothing but a story we tell about our code. It is also a cover for sloppy engineering. Making a supposed AI program that customizes a feed is less work than creating a great user interface that allows users to probe and improve what they see on their own terms – and that is so because AI has no objective criteria for success.”

— Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier Quote: “Every time you believe in AI, you are reducing your belief in human agency and value. You are undoing yourself and everyone else.”

119. “Every time you believe in AI, you are reducing your belief in human agency and value. You are undoing yourself and everyone else.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “If you aren’t part of the solution, there will be no solution.”

120. “If you aren’t part of the solution, there will be no solution.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “I don’t think I’m better than you because I don’t have social media accounts. Maybe I’m worse; maybe you can handle the stuff better than I can.”

121. “I don’t think I’m better than you because I don’t have social media accounts. Maybe I’m worse; maybe you can handle the stuff better than I can.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “If we want something different to happen, then the way money is earned has to change.”

122. “If we want something different to happen, then the way money is earned has to change.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “This book will argue that the companies on their own can’t do enough to glue the world back together.”

123. “This book will argue that the companies on their own can’t do enough to glue the world back together.”

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Jaron Lanier Quote: “Nothing about computers is inevitable. But we’ve put such a massive number of bits into place that it’s often too much work to remember how each brick of the edifice we live in is nothing but a peculiar obsession someone else put into place, once upon a time.”

124. “Nothing about computers is inevitable. But we’ve put such a massive number of bits into place that it’s often too much work to remember how each brick of the edifice we live in is nothing but a peculiar obsession someone else put into place, once upon a time.”

— Jaron Lanier

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