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“Wittgenstein, when he famously declared, “If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.” Some scholars were offended, complaining that Wittgenstein had no idea of the subtleties of animal communication, but the crux of his aphorism was that since our own experiences are so unlike a lion’s, we would fail to understand the king of fauna even if he spoke our tongue. In fact, Wittgenstein’s reflections extended to people in strange cultures with whom we, even if we know their language, fail to “find our feet.”4 His point was our limited ability to enter the”
― Frans de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

“To get from nothing to something is, multiplicatively, the biggest jump that physically can be made.”
― Orlando Loxley

“The most fundamental fact about current AIs is that they are grown”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

“The world is full of lonely people afraid to make the first move”
― The green book