My Digital Bookshelf

Quotes

• By starting with the most basic and fundamental axioms possible [...] a machine can [...] search through every possible way of combining the fundamental axioms in search of the truth.

• Connectionist AI is prone to becoming a "black box" - capable of spitting out the correct answer, but unable to explain how it found it.

• [The] concept of free will must somehow synthesize both deterministic and indeterministic philosophical ideas - avoiding rigid predictability without devolving into randomness.

• "Optimism is not an idle speculation on the future but rather a self-fulfilling prophecy." Belief that a better world is genuinely possible is a powerful motivator to work hard on creating it.

• Once our civilization learns how to do something useful, we generally keep that knowledge and build on it.