Would a robot know when it is lawful to kill, but wrong?
“It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“The way rockets work right now is they are all expendable. So, you fly them once, and you throw it away. You can imagine if any mode of transport was expendable, it wouldn’t be used very much. But whether it’s a plane, a boat, a car, a bicycle, or a horse—they’re all reusable. If a 747 costs about a quarter-billion dollars and you need two for a round-trip, nobody is paying half a billion dollars from London to New York and back.”
― The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
― The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”
― I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
― I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
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