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"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
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"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence."


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"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."


"We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light."


"I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth."


"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."
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