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“In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are. We fear silence like it's an invisible monster, gnawing at us, ripping us open, and showing us our dissatisfaction. Silence is terrifying.”

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Book:Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
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“There are two major problems I can see with the idea of putting a computer chip inside a human brain: The first is that our thoughts and memories are no longer private. They will be accessible and hackable. Secrets will be a thing of the past. Thought crimes will be a reality, and the prosecutors will have concrete evidence. Secondly, on reincarnation the soul could become trapped inside an entity which is part machine and part human. What happens when the soul is unable to leave the body is a complete unknown, and surely also open to nefarious manipulation.”

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Author:Jack Freestone
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“The computer can never be an artist, not until it doubts itself. Not until it is so full of shame and regret. And not until that fetid shame is sprinkled with glittering hope and inspiration. Then, when it is lost, desolate, and still hopeful - when it is utterly confused - only then can it call itself an artist. A machine can’t be that way. So, walk away from it. Do not protest it. That which you protest, you merely give strength - by pushing against it, you prop it up, you stop it from falling over. Walk away, let it collapse under the weight of its own hubris. Let it lie in ruin - unseen, unheard, unneeded. Let it rot unattended, and maybe then can it truly understand what it means to be an artist.”

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“What’s true of counterfeiting money should also be true of counterfeiting humans. If governments took decisive action to protect trust in money, it makes sense to take equally decisive measures to protect trust in humans. Prior to the rise of AI, one human could pretend to be another, and society punished such frauds. But society didn’t bother to outlaw the creation of counterfeit humans, since the technology to do so didn’t exist. Now that AI can pass itself off as human, it threatens to destroy trust between humans and to unravel the fabric of society. Dennett suggests, therefore, that governments should outlaw fake humans as decisively as they have previously outlawed fake money.[54] The law should prohibit not just deepfaking specific real people—creating a fake video of the U.S. president, for example—but also any attempt by a nonhuman agent to pass itself off as a human. If anyone complains that such strict measures violate freedom of speech, they should be reminded that bots don’t have freedom of speech. Banning human beings from a public platform is a sensitive step, and democracies should be very careful about such censorship. However, banning bots is a simple issue: it doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, because bots don’t have rights.[55] None of this means that democracies must ban all bots, algorithms, and AIs from participating in any discussion. Digital agents are welcome to join many conversations, provided they don’t pretend to be humans. For example, AI doctors can be extremely helpful. They can monitor our health twenty-four hours a day, offer medical advice tailored to our individual medical conditions and personality, and answer our questions with infinite patience. But the AI doctor should never try to pass itself off as a human.”

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Book:Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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“The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them by a score down to the hundredth of a pawn the way a chess machine does. Even the most disciplined human mind wanders in the heat of competition. This is both a weakness and a strength of human cognition. Sometimes these undisciplined wanderings only weaken your analysis. Other times they lead to inspiration, to beautiful or paradoxical moves that were not on your initial list of candidates.”

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Book:Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
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“It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed. Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.”

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Author:Damon Horowitz
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“We have reached a turning point in history in which major historical processes are partly caused by the decisions of nonhuman intelligence. It is this that makes the fallibility of the computer network so dangerous. Computer errors become potentially catastrophic only when computers become historical agents.”

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Book:Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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“Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder
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“People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes corrupted and they make choices that don’t make logical sense to others. Hatred left unaddressed will crash a person’s spirit. The only thing he or she can do is to reboot, by fixing him or herself, not others. This might require installing a firewall of boundaries or parental controls on their emotions. Regardless of the approach, we are all connected on this "network of life" and each of us is responsible for cleaning up our spiritual registry.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder
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“They are both ways to measure the information dimension. The more dimensional an object is, the less differentiable it is. The more differentiable it is, the less dimensional it is. Dimensions are what objects share together. Any value, if it's unknown, can be a dimension. It's only NOT a dimension if it's known, in which case it becomes a unit of information, called a bit. A bit denotes ONE (1) difference between two (2) objects.”

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Book:Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
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“Dimensions are what objects have in common. That's why they're anti-differences. That makes them negative information. I intend to communicate this information with all the clarity of a deterministic measurement on the object which is your mind. Dimensions aren't zero (0) information. They are NEGATIVE information. They delete information.”

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Book:Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
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“Specifically, using Ai to realistically synthesize the "Envelope" of a specific environment and then actualizing destructive/constructive interference patterns will lead to, if not instantaneous materialization, then certainly a directional indication towards the most visible source of that matching vibrational resonance model, which I call a "frequencies equation.”

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Book:Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
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“Conventional computers ARE quantum computers, intentionally designed with the limitation of only being able to operate deterministic algorithms. So is everything. Everything in physical reality is comprised of atoms that share information via time-dependent entanglement, which is all a quantum logic gate does, as well. The only thing that makes conventional computers useful is this very limitation since it filters out any signal noise that is a consequence of non-deterministic operations, including interference from background radiation -- when they're operating correctly, that is.”

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Book:Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
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“Events are being summoned, from a point not only distant in space but also in time. That is an improvisation thing, which humans have mastered and now trained computers to do via recursive programming. People are literally teleporting their consciousness moment to moment all the time and we have become accustomed to the illusion of smooth motion.”

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Book:Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
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“The unique thing about being a sentient entity is that you have the potential to become any person that you want to be. You are every person that could have ever existed and ever will. They just all identify as "I am" when asked who they are. "Are there any yous around here?" "Just me," they all say at once. Now that you know, you can be as many people as you want to be!”

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Book:Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
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