People under pressure don’t reflect: to run fast, you look straight ahead — not side to side. It’s difficult to generate new ideas when focused on delivery. Innovation requires free time for thinking. The typical Agile environment creates
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“Increasing complexity” on its own is not, however, the ultimate goal or end-product of these evolutionary processes. Evolution results in better answers, not necessarily more complicated ones. Sometimes a superior solution is a simpler one.”
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
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“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
“Transhumanists have a unique definition: Death is a malfunction of the human experience.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
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