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The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
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American Golden Age
Quotes from this poem:
"At the approach of duty, some serve, some swerve."
"From hand to mouth the gavel travels: from the hands of crooked judges to the mouths wannabe tyrants, there to serve as pacifiers."
"The lustre of gold surrounded the king, and the lust for gold filled him."
"Not British tea but oligarch gold must down Boston harbour go."
It was the golden age of America.
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"At the approach of duty, some serve, some swerve."
"From hand to mouth the gavel travels: from the hands of crooked judges to the mouths wannabe tyrants, there to serve as pacifiers."
"The lustre of gold surrounded the king, and the lust for gold filled him."
"Not British tea but oligarch gold must down Boston harbour go."
It was the golden age of America.
Page after page of hall Read more of this blog post »
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“Our global definition of human success proves its practical value each time that the artificial intelligence (AI) industry agonizes about how to address the spectre of super-intelligent robots someday gaining the capacity to oust man from his pre-eminent position on earth and relegate us to subservience or, worse, irrelevance. Such fear will never materialize if the makers of these robots design them to gravitate to actions that align with the cause of human success in the context of our given definition. If, however, we persist in the folly that the definition of human success is arbitrary, then robots that adopt this stance of mind shall tend to inflict injury on society quite like likeminded people have hitherto done. In a nutshell, the world agonizes about what AI success will mean because the world has never defined what human success should mean universally. If we had such a definition, the concept of AI safety would not be problematic: it would automatically be aligned with the
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“The Patriots erred in the Boston Tea Party: they seized Oligarch tea & dumped it in the sea but left Oligarch gold untouched. It's that gold that has troubled the nation from that day to this. Next time, go for the gold. Hence these words: "... yes, not British tea but Oligarch gold must down Boston harbour go ...”
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“It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous”
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
“Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy”
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
“I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.”
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“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
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“In sweetness nothing surpasses love reborn”
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
“The world would sooner bury a live rat than it would a dead lion”
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
“If our prehistoric ancestors visited us today they would find that while we now dwell in different huts, the hearts that dwell in us are still the same; and while we now drive different things, the things that drive us have also never changed.”
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
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