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Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
Daniel H. Wilson
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Daniel H. Wilson
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 6
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Engineer
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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Physics
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If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
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We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
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Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
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Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
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Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.
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Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
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You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.
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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
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It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
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Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.
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I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
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It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
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You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.
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Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.
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Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.
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I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.
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Technology changes, but people stay the same.
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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
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Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
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A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.
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