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“Somerset Maugham wrote: “I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.”
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“Since our intelligence has achieved so much, it should be obvious we should not fear the robot, which is nothing but an armed and armored bear. Instead, we should fear entities that are capable of beating us at our own game. It is the “intelligence” part of “artificial intelligence” that we have to fear.”
― Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence
― Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence
“On reading The Origin of Species, Erasmus Darwin wrote to his brother Charles in 1859: “The a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won’t fit in, why so much the worse for the facts.” Some of the facts—such as Kelvin’s calculation of the age of the Earth—looked awkard for Darwin’s theory at the time. But the theory of natural selection was too beautiful to be wrong. The brother was sure the troublesome facts would have to change. And so they did.”
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“resentment is a cup of poison that you pour for someone else but end up drinking yourself.”
― RECOVERY 2.0: Move Beyond Addiction and Upgrade Your Life
― RECOVERY 2.0: Move Beyond Addiction and Upgrade Your Life
“Illusions are a necessary consequence of intelligence. Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. Would we be better off without visual illusions? We would in fact be worse off—like a person who never says anything to avoid making any mistakes. A system that makes no errors is not intelligent.”
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