smays.com

A place where I publish what I notice.

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Asides

  • “AI that we will confront is not going to be a mind in an individual machine. It will not be something we look at as other. It may well be us.” — Tim O’Reilly (2015)
  • “Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses — viruses generated from within itself.” — Snow Crash
  • It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.” -- George Orwell
  • “Hybridization with human consciousness was an unanticipated result of attempting to reproduce advanced skill sets.” - AGENCY by William Gibson
  • “Kind of a digital mini-self, able to fill in when the user can’t be online.” -- AGENCY by William Gibson
  • “Interesting how decisions have a way of making themselves if you just get out of their way.” (paraphrasing) — Hit and Run (Lawrence Block)
  • “So it turned out you didn’t have to forget things, not really. You just relaxed your grip on them and they floated off by themselves.” — Hit and Run (Lawrence Block)
  • “There are no coincidences, only patterns we do not see.” — Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
  • “People have told me I have a very symmetrical face.” — Michael Scott
  • “Zen pretty much comes down to three things-everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.” — Jane Hirshfield
  • “The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you. But you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI Researcher
  • “It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.” — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • “You don’t know me. You’ve just seen my penis.” — Michael Scott
  • “Men who believe they are accomplishing something by speaking, speak in a different way from men who believe speaking is a waste of time.” -- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  • “In the future, only older, poorer people will experience advertising.” — Jules Ehrhardt
  • “What’s happening right in front of us is the only thing happening.” — Department Q
  • “My other superpower is that I don’t mind embarrassing myself in public.” - Scott Adams
  • “Cardiologists confirming that up to 400 mg (4 cups) of caffeine daily is safe and likely heart-protective.” — American Heart Assn
  • “Since I got sober, the world of gambling has really opened up to me.” — Rooster (HBO)
  • “Raise your hand if somebody you love has a vagina.” — Deangelo Vickers