“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks (explaining our penchant for baseball). A cavewoman thinking too hard about what matter… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond the human scale, our evolved intuition should break down.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. —Albert Einstein” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
