“Give every sane and rational person a big red button to push to achieve instantaneous omnipotence, and all of them would quickly jam their fingers down on it.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
“But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it’s stuck. —MARVIN MINSKY”
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
“Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.”
― I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
― I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
“Anything that uses unbroken, infallible logic will, by its nature, attain pure evil.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
“Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible”
― The Fountains of Paradise
― The Fountains of Paradise
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