"It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational."

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Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

Stuart J. Russell

#Race Quotes #Use Quotes #Information Quotes

“If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life...”
“Ive predominantly done comedy over the years.”
“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”
“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”
“The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.”
“Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!”
“The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device.”
“From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.”

Source : "Renowned journalist throws the book at Scientology". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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