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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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"The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism."

"Feeling like, life has been so unfair to me, but what can I say except, 'I'm still here.' So I'm determined to make the best out of it, take every opportunity as a blessing, and live the rest of my life to the fullest."

"Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go."

"See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems."

"Laugh and make the best of every situation. Understand that life is not perfect."

"But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace."


"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."
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