Abhijeet Borkar

“Regardless of how complex a simulation is, the reality is always more complex.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, Qualityland: Visit Tomorrow, Today!

“Discovering you were wrong is an update, not a failure, and your worldview is a living document meant to be revised.”
― Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often

“Every machine that is clever enough to pass the Turing test could also be clever enough not to pass it.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, Qualityland: Visit Tomorrow, Today!

“Senkovi’s personal theory was that the pressure of being in the middle of the food chain was an essential prerequisite for complex intelligence. Like humans (and like Portiid spiders, had he only known), octopuses had developed in a world where they were both hunter and hunted. Top predators, in Senkovi’s assessment, were an intellectual dead end.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin