"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."

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"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."

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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

Alan Shepard, American Astronaut

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

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"He not busy being born is busy dying."

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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"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."

Technology

"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."

Intelligence

"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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"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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"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."

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"The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility."

Possibility

"It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules."

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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."

Agreement

"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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"When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project."

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