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“The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?""Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation!""I guess that explains their rich milita...”
“Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass...”
“It was certainly true that I had no sense of humour in that I found nothing funny. I didnt know, and perhaps would never know, the feeling of compulsion to exhale and convulse in the very specific ...”
“It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these me...”
“Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.”
“No... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.”
“Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism, won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.”
“You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.”
“Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!”
“As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.”
“If your Ipad can do it better than you, then it is not a skill.”
“Long before you were born a man decided that there could be a very simple test to determine if a machine was intelligent. Not only intelligent, but aware, possessed of a psychology. The test had on...”
“Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.”
“Prayer panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.”
“What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?”
“It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.”
“I think they are a better race than humans ever were.”
“Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.”
“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So why should a creature of higher...”
“Karma of humans is AI”
