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Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect te...more

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Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive fe...more

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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.

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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...more

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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...more

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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...more

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Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened.

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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...more

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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...more