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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

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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
Learns
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Study
Least
Science
Seems

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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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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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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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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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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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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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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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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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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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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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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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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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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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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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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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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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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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