“You study more and more of [human cognitive biases], and [they go] on apparently forever. They’re still [finding] more and more of them. The world is mad, it’s an experimentally demonstrated fact. The data admit to no other interpretation. The fact that humanity is spending billions of dollars annually on football while ignoring the existential risks that could completely extinguish it and when the successful navigation [of these risks] could determine its future, there’s no deeply clever explanation for that. We’re just crazy.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Cognitive biases and Giant Risks (Singularity Summit, 2009)