All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“At times, Larry accused Elon of being “specieist”: treating certain life forms as inferior just because they were silicon-based rather than carbon-based.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“I’m arguing that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure, which is by definition an abstract, immutable entity existing outside of… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“The consensus reality isn’t free from some shared illusions relative to the external reality, as we’ll elaborate on below: for example, cats,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Will life in our Universe fulfill its potential or squander it? This depends to a great extent on what we humans alive… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Although in the external reality of general relativity, you’re an extended braidlike pattern in a static four-dimensional spacetime, you nonetheless perceive yourself… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Similarly, you might argue that today’s humans should count as Life 2.1: we can perform minor hardware upgrades such as implanting artificial… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Chapter 2: How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? It sounds impossible. But as I mentioned, inflation is… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“this temporal-reality model with its sequence of memories gives you the subjective feeling of time flowing through a sequence of events even… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Again Einstein comes to the rescue with a loophole, this time from his general relativity theory, which says that gravity is caused… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“The movielike subjective reality that you’re perceiving right now exists only in your head, as part of your brain’s reality model, and… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“How could space not be infinite? How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? What’s our Universe expanding into?… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Just as your spatial-reality model gives you the subjective feeling of looking at a three-dimensional space even though your mind is actually… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“In summary, most scientists and sci-fi authors considering cosmic settlement have in my opinion been overly pessimistic in ignoring the possibility of… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“In other words, even though an observer moment objectively occupies less than a liter of volume and a second of time, it… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Looking toward the future, there are two possibilities. If I’m wrong and the MUH is false, then physics will eventually hit an… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“My personal analysis is that the media have made the AI-safety debate seem more controversial than it really is. After all, fear sells, and… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“Chapter 2: How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? It sounds impossible. But as I mentioned, inflation is like a… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“I suspect that if we can build such ultra-intelligent machines, then the first one will be severely limited by the software we’ve written for… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“the whole can contain less information than the sum of its parts—and sometimes even less than one of its parts!” — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. —Albert Einstein” — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here’s my guess: because it’s useful.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“the neuron bundle comes from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth or skin. The key difference lies not in the neurons that carry this information,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“In other words, even though an observer moment objectively occupies less than a liter of volume and a second of time, it subjectively feels… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“Neural networks have now transformed both biological and artificial intelligence, and have recently started dominating the AI subfield known as machine learning (the study… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“it can start with something smaller than an atom and create an infinite space inside of it, containing infinitely many galaxies, without affecting the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann on steroids: lacking… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
![“This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years…” quote by Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/df2/max-tegmark-3860_century_this-brief-century-of-ours-is-arguably-t_1957021.jpg)
