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Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it--life begins in slime and ends in intelligence--whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." --HUSTON SMITH16 Some philosophers hold"
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Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion," and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last inven..
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Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it--life begins in slime and ends in intelligence--whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." --HUSTON SMITH16"
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As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." --"
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Once a computer achieves human intelligence it will necessarily roar past it.
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Order... is information that fits a purpose.
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The twentieth century was like twenty years' worth of change at today's rate of change.
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Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable.
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The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.
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