Singleton Quotes (3 quotes)

“But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: ralationships, singleton

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“Human individuals and human organizations typically have preferences over resources that are not well represented by an "unbounded aggregative utility function". A human will typically not wager all her capital for a fifty-fifty chance of doubling it. A state will typically not risk losing all its territory for a ten percent chance of a tenfold expansion. [T]he same need not hold for AIs. An AI might therefore be more likely to pursue a risky course of action that has some chance of giving it control of the world.”
― Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

tags: artificial-intelligence, artificial-superintelligence, decision-theory, expected-utility, non-maximizing-decision-rules, risk-aversion, singleton, superintelligence, utility-function

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“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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