By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you ...
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Ending up with that gigantic outsized brain must have taken some sort of runaway evolutionary process, something that would push and push without limi...
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Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
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Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick them into believing something else, if you...
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To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
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Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted pos...
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So the next time you doubt the strangeness of the future, remember how you were born in a hunter-gatherer tribe ten thousand years ago, when no one kn...
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It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a...
