"If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Self Quotes #Want Quotes #Modification Quotes

“And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.”
“It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
“Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.”
“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”
“I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.”
“The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.”
“What if destiny doesn't care?”

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