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“Crushed sandstone sifted through Calebs fingers, insubstantial as dust. A breeze caught the debris mid-fall and spirited it away before it could join the ashes blanketing the ground. He stopped in ...”
“Well go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue.Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.He squeezed her hand. Al...”
“Children are turning themselves into monsters and, quite frankly, it is your fault. You initiated the creation of this technology, then you allowed it to slip through your fingers.Miriams jaw tight...”
“Her perception was propelled backward, as if it were being pulled into a vortex. She slammed into her body, and her eyes flew open with a gasp.Alex?She sat straight up in the chair and grabbed Cale...”
“It was killing him, seeing her this way. She was not meant to be uncertain, timid or fearful; the woman he knew exuded confidence so fiercely it might as well be a damn spiritual aura. He needed to...”
“It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?Because here was wh...”
“Semantics, Admiral. Id appreciate an honest answer.Id appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them. Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time...”
“Evening had turned the sky a deep persimmon. The remaining sunlight enriched the colors of the ubiquitous flowers and foliage to even greater vibrancy, as if the saturation filter had been notched ...”
“A wispy murmur in the blackness. Blackness, where before there was only nothingness. It was dark, inky and thick, but there now existed the palpable sense of tangibility. She gasped in alarm, but n...”
“I believe my judgment has never been clearer. I have seen firsthand their potential, their strength of will, in a way you have not.You have loosed a chaotic, unstable variable into the Mosaic. They...”
“I frankly expected a far more negative reaction from you on discovering she glanced around the lab the situation. Why are you helping?Im not helpingIm merely not hindering in as strenuous a fashion...”
“He checked her over while mentally checking himself. Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversaryyouve got that, right?One c...”
“If there was anything the last year had taught herif there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught herit was that perspective was everything. If you wanted to understand your ...”
“Try to think like a human, said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.Why should I restrict myself so severely?”
“Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisteda discussion point in the nature vs nurture d...”
“Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called pigheadedness.”
“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradi...”
“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
“I listen to his heartbeat. Hear him breathe. As though becomes motion and motion becomes all that lies between him and his end. As the black Is burning blue with the light of tiny funeral pyres. As...”
“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 ...”
