Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.
David Marusek, Mind Over Ship.
“Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.”
“In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.”
“What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish ...”
“Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated a...”
“When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design on the only proven conscious material then known, namely,...”
“Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.”
“In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.”
“Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessa...”
“The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the cap...”
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
“But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.”
“Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of ...”