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“My dogs might believe, in their little doggy brains, that they wield the power in our relationship because I feed them, pet them, come when they bark, pick up their poop, buy them toys and care for them when they are sick. However, if they ever decided to act on their beliefs and try to exert power over me or my family, then their true place in the relationship would quickly become apparent. Likewise, we may feel confident that we are the master of our AI creations, only to be taken completely by surprise when we realise – too late – that we are no longer in control.”
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
“The paradox of change is that while everyone says they want change, not many people actually like it, and even less want to lead it.”
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
“In many ways, the status quo is human nature; people are often paradoxically afraid of change and also afraid of staying the same – but when push comes to shove, staying the same seems safer.”
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
“Technology provides access to more power than our ancestors would have thought possible but does not guide us as to what to do with that power. Similarly, the market provides us with endless choices but does not tell us how to use these choices. And our liberal, individualist and faithless state gives us freedom, but provides no intellectual, moral or spiritual guidance for how to use that freedom.”
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
“As machines increasingly do more of the work, and real-life relationships lose their allure, then the allegory of Plato’s Cave becomes real. A mass of people living inside, disconnected from those who live their lives outside, systematically unable or unwilling to participate in the competition of life because they cannot stand the unpredictability of reality.”
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
“The industrial age has transformed our material well-being, but these improvements have come at the cost of our beliefs: belief in our special place in the universe; belief in an omnipresent god; belief in country and community; belief in monogamy and marriage, and belief in our values. What, then, holds up the foundations of society when these beliefs finally fall away?”
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
“Given their apparent immortality, the past is surprisingly littered with the corpses of deities.”
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
“By the end of the decade many of these technologies will have crossed the chasm and become disruptive, creating a world in which people, insights, and money interact quickly, easily and cheaply, affecting nearly every industry at every level. This will have both positive and negatives, for each new wave brings a period of technological Darwinism, as creation never travels alone; its companion, destruction, always hitches a ride.”
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
― Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
