"No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid……" — David Deutsch
"No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance."
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28 Quotes by David Deutsch
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I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by…
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Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
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Is the human race a universal constructor?
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It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
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Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on…
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If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
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