I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.
– Kamala Harris
Just noting that all arguments about possible future general artificial intelligences are basically warmed-over versions of mediaeval Christian theologians arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. They’re EXACTLY that grounded in both observable reality and theological discourse. You be the judge.
– Charles Stross på Mastodon – Link
We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
– Louis Brandeis (link)
A robot may not harm shareholder value nor, through inaction, allow shareholder value to come to harm.
– Benno på Mastodon – Link til indlæg. Realistisk modernisering af Asimovs Three Laws of Robotics
To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money.
– Tim O’Reilly, Ilan Strauss, Mariana Mazzucato, Rufus Rock: To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money.
You take the lies out of him, and he’ll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he’ll disappear.
– Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
– Howard Phillips Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
I am sorry, but I do not wish to accept the honorary degree you have offered me. I already have one degree, honestly earned, from Princeton. At the commencement when I received it, I remember watching the honorary degrees being conferred and feeling that an “honorary” degree was a debasement of the idea of a degree that confirms that certain work has been accomplished.
– Richard Feynman til Robert Boheen, 1967. (Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track: The collected letters of Richard P. Feynman)
Computing has scientific roots, and if it is not open source, it is not science. The only way to win a Nobel Prize for a box welded shut is if you teleport the cat out before Schrödinger’s infernal device kills it.
– Poul-Henning Kamp: Free and Open Source Software—and Other Market Failures. ACMQueue Vol. 22, issue 1.
The world of artificial intelligence can be divided up a lot of different ways, but the most obvious split is between researchers interested in being god and researchers interested in being rich.
–Tom Athanasiou: Mind games. Fra Processed World, issue 13, April 1985