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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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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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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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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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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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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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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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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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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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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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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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, What caused the Universe to exist?
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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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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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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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Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
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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.
Marvin Minsky
