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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
Jaron Lanier
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Jaron Lanier
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 3
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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Computer Scientist
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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share
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I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And there is an extraordinary gadget lust that drives the military. So it's possible that war is just the ultimate expression of creativity.
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America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.
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A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
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Humans change themselves through technology.
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I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.
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