In a very deep sense, I think the biggest miracle that we need to create the super powerful A.I. is already behind us. It’s already in the rearview mirror. We just needed an algorithm that could learn and a network architecture that could somehow encode the knowledge and the capability to reason.
~ Sam Altman
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In the future individualism ought to be the efficient utilization of the whole individual for the absolute benefit of a collectivity.
~ Che Guevara
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.
~ Roger Scruton
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An intellectual hatred is the worst. So let her think opinions are accursed.
~ William Butler Yeats
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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
~ John le Carré
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The Generative AI Statement recently published by the University of Colorado Boulder can be found:
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Mark Twain
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Living is despairing, and the dead they rot away.
~ Herta Müller
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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