People Quote by Jaan Tallinn

“Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.”

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Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue…

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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that…

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Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you…

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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.

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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our…

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Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there…

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Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also…

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I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river…

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