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"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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"As a lifetime optimist, my first tendency has always been to look for the best in others, the best in situations, and focus on what is working rather than what is not. Noticing the good has helped me immensely in life and business and it can do the same for you."
"Maybe it's for good what has happen, maybe it's not for good. Nobody knows, but don't ruin your day thinking about this sad event (The Dead). In the film "The Night Before", the same thing happen, but it went to something new and wonderful, marvelous how??The friends become best friends, parties, loads fun. This is all what we need!"
"The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade."
"Expect good to happen in your day and you'll find that good things start to happen."
"What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people were as well-developed as turtles!" He shrugged. "Well - who knows - maybe human beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness. What's your guess?"
"You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising."
"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."
"The world turned itself into a better place around him."
"Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism."
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"When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project."
"I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth."
"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."
"We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light."
"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity."
"Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace."
"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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