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"Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."

"What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness."

"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."

"A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass."

"Harold is clever from Person of Interest."

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."
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"With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries."


"In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy."


"A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes."


"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe."


"The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered."


"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos."


"The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling."


"For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture."
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