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• What we have is a data glut.
• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from…
• Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
• Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its…
• Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
• Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
• Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation…
• Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
• We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
• All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that…
• The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
• Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

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