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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."
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"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"

"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."

"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."

"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."

"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."

"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity."

"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."

"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
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"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
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