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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
Marvin Minsky
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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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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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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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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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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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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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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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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
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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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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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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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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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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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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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