Arnold executed the perfect rep with this 2017 post

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Soooo, what horrors will Trump serve up next month to make the public and news media forget about this month?

“In moments of crisis, the sentimental clichés prove true. Nobody has come up with a better idea than love.” –Dorian Lynskey, Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World, 2024 book #booksinmybookcase

“The prospect of building godlike creatures fills me with a sense of religious awe that goes to the very depth of my soul and motivates me powerfully to continue, despite the possible horrible negative consequences. I feel quite schizophrenic about this.” —Hugo de Garis, The Artilect War #AI

“In settler colonialism, the process by which colonists seize land and permanently displace its indigenous inhabitants, the very existence of those inhabitants must be concealed or minimized, and the land represented as empty.” —Jason Stanley, Erasing History #booksinmybookcase

“Fascism requires an enemy, preferably one who can appear to be dangerous but in fact is close to helpless compared to the might of the state.” ―James Lawrence Powell, The 2084 Report: A Novel of the Great Warming, 2011 novel #booksinmybookcase

“Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run, probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.” —George Orwell, “The Prevention of Literature,” 1946 essay #booksinmybookcase

“Race is a system of ideas that is constantly being transformed by human interactions. … Racial formations are a fabrication that, like shifting sands, change over time.” —Rina Bliss, What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society (2025) #booksinmybookcase #books #race #racism

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It seems that three out of four Americans understand that these people are crazy. centerforinquiry.org/blog/good-ne...

Sharpen your thinking about gods and religions. It matters, regardless if you are a casual believer, apathetic atheist, fundamentalist zealot, or innocent bystander. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/abou...

We are big-skulled, neuron-bloated, bipedal, omnivorous, microbe-hosting, information-sharing, culture-dependent, socially amplified, endothermic, multicellular organisms. But wait, there’s more! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/abou...

“When we design shiny, futuristic, and seemingly flawless algorithms, and then train them with flawed, biased, and incomplete data, we risk entrenching into the future of our healthcare systems the damaging cycles that we should instead be breaking.” #booksinmybookcase

EGALITARIAN ORIGINS “For the vast majority of human history there were no chiefs, commanders, or aristocrats. There were none of the usual signs of disparities in power, whether that be unequally sized dwellings or an individual or group buried with especially extravagant goods." #booksinmybookcase

“It doesn’t matter who’s in charge, because this problem is out of humanity’s league. We need to back off, and find some other way to achieve our dreams of an abundant future. If anyone builds it, everyone dies.” —Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares #booksinmybookcase #AI

“You wouldn’t need to hate humanity to use their atoms for something else.” —Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, 2025 book #booksinmybookcase #AI

Can you teach a Sneetch? Maybe it’s true. Maybe you just can’t teach a Sneetch. Could be there’s no saving them from being fooled and fleeced by even the most obvious con artist. But I’ll try anyway. Please think and think well. #bookbyguypharrison #criticalthinking

“The Prime Directive, Jim. We can’t interfere with this culture. They aren’t anywhere near ready. Their technology is pre-warp, their elected leaders barely sentient, and half of them don’t even believe in vaccines!” #idiocracy

“The first recorded critic of slavery, Diogenes was able to think outside of his society’s norms when no one else could.” —Inger N.I. Kuin, Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic, 2025 book #booksinmybookcase Excellent work by @ingerkuin.bsky.social

Science fiction is humanity’s essential mirror. Look into it if you dare. DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES A New Scientist magazine “Best Science Fiction Books of the Month” selection #booksbyguypharrison

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." —Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft #booksinmybookcase

Think before you join. Think before you buy. Think before you vote. Think before you believe. #booksbyguypharrison

“If you dropped a datacenter containing an AI into the year 10,000 BC, maybe it’d have difficulty manipulating the world. But the present-day world is one where smart AIs would not have any trouble at all acting on the world.” #AI

“You’ve no doubt heard it said, ‘war is just human nature.’ And that is true, in that people can and often do make war. But do we ‘naturally’ lean into it, prefer it over other paths? Is that innate tendency why war is so common? No.” — R. Brian Ferguson, anthropologist

“Reality cannot be ignored, except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.” — Aldous Huxley, “Religion and Time” (1943 essay)

"Could it be, the firmness of the past is just an illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? —Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams, 1992 novel #booksinmybookcase

“As the common understanding of reality crumbles, fascist politics makes room for dangerous and false beliefs to take root. First, fascist ideology seeks to naturalize group difference, thereby giving the appearance of natural, scientific support for a hierarchy of human worth." #booksinmybookcase

“The dangers of fascist politics come from the particular way in which it dehumanizes segments of the population.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018) #books #booksinmybookcase

Science fiction is humanity’s essential mirror. Look into it if you dare. DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES A New Scientist magazine “Best Science Fiction Books of the Month” selection #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes #booksbyguypharrison #books

“The big questions do not go away.” —Robin Waterfield, Plato of Athens #booksinmybookcase

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.” —Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980 book #astronomy #science #criticalthinking #booksinmybookcase

Critical thinking is free. Sloppy thinking can be very expensive.

Five Sci-Fi Novels That Can Change Your View of Reality www.psychologytoday.com/sg/blog/abou...

“Fascist politics thrives on the human frailty that makes our own suffering seem bearable if we know that those we look down upon are being made to suffer more.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Incompetent, shortsighted, greedy, and power-obsessed government leaders destroying scientific progress while having little to no understanding of what science is and how it benefits everyone. #NASA bigthink.com/starts-with-...

“Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.” —Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, 2006 novel

“But growth was always an illusion, bought only by exploiting other people or the Earth’s irreplaceable resources or burning up our children’s future.” —Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time, 2000 novel

"They stared at their phones and listened to their headpieces and looked through their glasses of augmented reality, and mostly they forgot. Forgot what it meant to be human." —Daniel Arenson, Earth Alone, 2016 novel

“Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous."

Stop letting social media make you stupid.

Wisdom from The Doctor... #drwho

“That’s the curse of intelligence—never being satisfied, always longing for something but not knowing what.” ―Peter Cawdron, Cold Eyes, 2021 novel

Something my camera saw along the way... "Do not destroy what you cannot create." ―Leo Szilard #somethingmycamerasawalongtheway

Stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope! #JWST #NASA #space #science

“Strange, isn’t it? Everything you know, your entire civilization, it all begins right here in this little pond of goo. Appropriate somehow, isn’t it?” ― Q (extraterrestrial entity), Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…” 1994, written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga

The scientifically advanced monkey...

Climbing from the cradle...

“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.” ― Ex Machina, 2014 film, written by Alex Garland #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes

“Kol-Ut-Shan, infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Accept difference, respect difference—come in peace.” ― The Autobiography of Mr. Spock, 2021 novel by Una McCormack #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes