Certainly everyone, in order to protect love, Certainly wishes to believe in something
A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious. . . . Does it have feelings?
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.
We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.