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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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
Inquiry
Acquire
Certainty
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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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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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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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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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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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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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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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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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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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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 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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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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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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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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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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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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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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