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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Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
~ Albert Camus
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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
~ Umberto Eco
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Communication leads to community — that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking.
~ Rollo May
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~ Ernest Hemingway
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
~ Rollo May
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The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
~ Toni Morrison
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~ Saul Bellow
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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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