"The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way."

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Fall Quotes #Keys Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.”
“The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.”
“I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about”
“I had written a lot about my dog dying before. I wrote a newspaper column about it and it turned out to be the most popular column I'd ever written. That and the lame Joni Mitchell column I did. But the dog column, my god! People love dogs. Anybody who writes regularly should know, when in doubt: dogs! If you're a columnist, when in doubt, write a column about the culture of narcissism - like a scolding column about the culture of narcissism - or write something about dogs. That's the homerun in my take.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.”
“How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.”
“Light makes photography. Embrace light.”
“Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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