I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discountdismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious. . . . Does it have feelings?
If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child's needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.
It's easy to set up binaries of who's good and who's bad, who is right and who is wrong. But I really don't think that way. I believe that people can change and grow.
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.