I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.