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Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.
“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
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
― Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
― Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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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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