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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

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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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Focus
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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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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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
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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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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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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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