“Though all Christians start a wedding invitation by solemnly declaring their marriage is due to special Divine arrangement, I, as a philosopher,… — Brian Christian Christianity Copy Share Image
“It’s fairly intuitive that never exploring is no way to live. But it’s also worth mentioning that never exploiting can be every… — Brian Christian Computer science Copy Share Image
“Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see… — Brian Christian Attention Copy Share Image
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“look no further than Peter A. Lawrence’s developmental biology text The Making of a Fly, which in April 2011 was selling for… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
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Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Biased Copy Share Image
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and… — Brian Christian Again and again Copy Share Image
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“Computer scientists have been working on finding this balance for more than fifty years. They even have a name for it: the… — Brian Christian Computers Copy Share Image
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“tackling real-world tasks requires being comfortable with chance, trading off time with accuracy, and using approximations.” — Brian Christian Time Copy Share Image
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