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Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

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Daniel H. Wilson
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 6
Author
Engineer
Journalist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Without
Unfolding
Pointless
Physics
Witness
Universe

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When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.
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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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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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Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.
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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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We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.
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You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.
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It's dangerous to be people-blind.
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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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Technology changes, but people stay the same.
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To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.
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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 absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
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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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A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.
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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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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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Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.
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