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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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Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
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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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How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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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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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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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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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.
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It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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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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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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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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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
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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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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.
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