The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.
The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with Zacchaeus and the prostitute in John 8.
Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.