The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
Peter WattsPeople aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
Peter WattsComputers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.
Peter Watts