“The result of hybridization of two lines of military research. One toward uploading aspects of human consciousness, the other toward an expert system focused on a particular sort of warfare.”
― Agency
― Agency
“The tendency to create powerful things with unintended consequences started not with the invention of the steam engine or AI but with the invention of religion.”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Perhaps periodization makes it easier to remember that no matter how massively entrenched the order of things seems in your time, there is no chance at all that they are going to be the same as they are now after a century has passed, or even ten years.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
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