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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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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."
"Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape."
"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
"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."
"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."
"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
"Compete with yourself, you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!"
"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."
"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
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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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"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."
"And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty."
"I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth."
"When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project."
"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence."
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."
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