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Rob Reid

(1940) Economist

11 quotes in 15 categories

Rob Reid is an economist.

Quick Facts About Rob Reid

Born: January 1, 1940
Profession: Economist

About Rob Reid

[Wikidata] 1940--; Reider, H. Robert; Reider, Harry R.... | [Wikipedia] Robert H. Reid is an American author and entrepreneur. He is the author of two novels, the science fiction Year Zero: A Novel, and the cyberthriller After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, as well as a nonfiction book, Architects of the Web, about the rise of the internet business. Reid is the founder

Quotes by Rob Reid

“I submit that an emergent AI that’s smart enough to understand its place in our world would find it terrifying. Terminator fans…

Cybersecurity

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“I looked at Judy as calmly as I could. "Music and movie piracy..." I slipped into a dramatic pause as I desperately…

Music

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“And like most of her peers, Barbara Ann has a French postal worker's sense of divine entitlement when it comes to her…

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“The passage of time makes wizards of us all.”

Passage of time

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“On a scale of Burning Man to North Korea, how free are you tonight?”).”

Burning man

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“Clippy got that pervert-on-the-playground look again..”

Clippy

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“It all starts with the fact that thinking is expensive from the standpoint of natural selection,” Mitchell continues. “The brain consumes 20…

Democracy

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“I used to think that English-speaking who conveniently look, dress, and act human only turned up in lazy science fiction. But as…

Aliens

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“If so, sorry if that sounded a bit mean. But we’re better off without whoever just stomped off. Those people offend easily…

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“Now, I’ve never heard a rabid hyena shriek from rectal acid burns. But I’ll bet that sounds a lot like Mllsh-mllsh introducing…

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“An “emergent” AI is one that spontaneously arises after the local server farm plugs in one transistor too many.”

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