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This was my personal introduction to the stock market. Lesson learned: A 100% stock portfolio can be dangerous.
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
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“Some people think that a simulation can’t be conscious and only a physical system can. But they got it completely backward: a physical system cannot be conscious. Only a simulation can be conscious. Consciousness is a simulated property of the simulated self.”
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“The experience of watching your garden grow gives you some idea of how future AI systems will feel when observing human life.”
― Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
― Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
“Why do I get angry when I am insulted? A: Because you entertain the verity of the insult.”
― Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life
― Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life
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