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Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

Granted, there is still that picture of the Terminator jeering over practically every journalistic attempt to engage with the subject.

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

Solving the value-loading problem is a research challenge worthy of some of the next generation's best mathematical talent.

We find ourselves in a thicket of strategic complexity, surrounded by a dense mist of uncertainty.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

Human working memory is able to hold no more than some four or five chunks of information at any given time.

The bouillon cubes of discrete human-like intellects thus melt into an algorithmic soup.

(On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits - a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone.

Some little idiot is bound to press the ignite button just to see what happens.

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.

the orthogonality thesis speaks not of rationality or reason, but of intelligence.

Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

Biological neurons operate at a peak speed of about 200 Hz, a full seven orders of magnitude slower than a modern microprocessor (~ 2 GHz).

Are you living in a computer simulation?

Human nature is a work in progress.

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Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

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