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• Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,…
• One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John…
• The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
• The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right…
• It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that…
• If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out…
• Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals…
• This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

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