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the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“And if you’re ever feeling lonely just look at the moon.
Someone, somewhere, is looking right at it too.”
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Someone, somewhere, is looking right at it too.”
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“If an AI possessed any one of these skills—social abilities, technological development, economic ability—at a superhuman level, it is quite likely that it would quickly come to dominate our world in one way or another. And as we’ve seen, if it ever developed these abilities to the human level, then it would likely soon develop them to a superhuman level. So we can assume that if even one of these skills gets programmed into a computer, then our world will come to be dominated by AIs or AI-empowered humans.”
― Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence
― Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence
“Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.”
― Passing Strange
― Passing Strange
“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”
― The Law
― The Law
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