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I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

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Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Scientist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Marvin Lee Minsky
Marvin L. Minsky
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Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
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Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
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But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
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The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the real meaning of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing but most of the time, we aren't either.
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General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
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Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or mathematics envy.
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
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What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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