“Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you're only feeling yourself, maybe you're even worse than me. Or maybe we're all just guessing.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
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