evolution

“And I think this emergence of computers as a source of knowledge is going to be every bit as momentous as the previous three were.”

“Conversely, a lot of the knowledge that we have from evolution and from experience and from culture, we often tend to think of it as much more certain than it really is. We have this great tendency that's been well studied by psychologists to be overconfident …”

“My philosophy falls down to, and one pole is evolution as a binding principle, because it explains so much about humans and the near side is Buddhism, which is the oldest, most time-tested spiritual philosophy on the internal state of being inside each of us. …”

“It's impossible for anything rational, To successfully evolve, because the byproduct of being rational and efficient, optimally rational and efficient, would be that you'd be predictable. And if you were completely predictable, you'd be dead.”

“Evolution, it's a very unique thing in the sense that it's kind of like a search or like a learning algorithm that discovered everything that was ever created in nature in a single run. This is very different from like what you see in typical machine learning,…”

“The mental rules of thumb that evolution gives us to deal with risk are not adequate, Munger writes. They resemble the dysfunctional golf grip you would have if you relied on evolution instead of golf lessons.”