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"We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light."
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"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."
"Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall]."
"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."
"Of all matches never was the like."
"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."
"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."
"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
"Hmm", Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride.Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first."
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"In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds."
"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity."
"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."
"The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being."
"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."
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