Sympathy Tower Tokyo Quotes

“This is what I can't stand about you AI natives—this assumption that as long as you ask a question, you'll always get your answer. I am not an AI. Try having a guess or coming up with your own theory from time to time. I don't give marks for answers that fail to show their working. Some people might, but I'm not one of them. If your success is a fluke, when you're not sure you could manage twice in a row, then it's no success at all.”
― Rie Qudan, Sympathy Tower Tokyo

“There's simply no rational basis for blaming someone's criminality on their personality or lack of willpower. A gaping chasm has arisen between words and reality. If anyone deserves to be labeled guilty or hasty in their judgment, it is the people who, believing it themselves to be superior members of the human race, chose to orchestrate criminals as a group. If you really are the level-headed, intelligent,“good”person you claim to be, you should be able to find genuine compassion and respect for those who grew up in circumstances different to your own. In fact, for us Homo Felix—those born into the privilege of happiness, isn't sympathizing with such people a matter of duty? This is the conclusion that my 30 years of studying human happiness has led me to. And I couldn't be more certain of it.
All life born into this world, regardless of its circumstances, is equally precious. I wanna see a world in which everyone is allotted an equal share of moments in which they can say to themselves, in all honesty, that they are glad to have been born. That is my one real wish.”
― Rie Qudan, Sympathy Tower Tokyo

“Using words to think about words was a terrible idea, really, and not something any self-respecting person would do.”
― Rie Qudan, Sympathy Tower Tokyo

“What happened next, for some reason, was that I began to feel something like pity for the chatbot. The poor thing, I thought, condemned to an empty life of endlessly spewing out the language it was told to spew, without ever understanding what this cut-and-paste patchwork of other people's words meant or whom it was for.”
― Rie Qudan, Sympathy Tower Tokyo

“... only one example of a creature whose unobtrusive life consists of swing back and forth in the water and letting the currents waft her this way and that as she silently feeds on plankton, and that is a sea anemone. ...The sea anemone has no dreams, or if she does, she has no recollection of them.”
― Rie Qudan, Sympathy Tower Tokyo