"I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someoneâ€™s reckless youth against them â€“ just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesnâ€™t mean you should be permanently disqualified."

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Mean Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.”
“I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably.”
“I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.”
“Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.”

Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”
“I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.”
“Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.”
“We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody get's hurt. It's basic.' ~Oliva, pg 374”

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