“Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“The journey of a thousands suns begins today. Some may question whether the journey is worth the sacrifice and danger. To them… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“The journey of a thousands suns begins today. Some may question whether the journey is worth the sacrifice and danger. To them I say… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual organisms don't… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.” — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Why do we need so many people on Earth? I ask you. What are they good for? They live out ludicrous lives of pointless… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.” — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of the irrational…This… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
