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Since we have no systematic way to avoid all the inconsistencies of commonsense logic, each person must find his own way by building a private collection of 'cognitive censors' to suppress the kinds of mistakes he has discovered in the past.
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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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Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
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This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
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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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Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders.
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When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
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Changing the states of many agents grossly alters behavior, while changing only a few just perturbs the overall disposition a little.
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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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For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this 'negative meta-knowledge' - about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful - may be a large portion of all we know.
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An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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Questioning one's own 'top-level' goals always reveals the paradox-oscillation of ultimate purpose. How could one decide that a goal is worthwhile - unless one already knew what it is that is worthwhile?
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Every system that we build will surprise us with new kinds of flaws until those machines become clever enough to conceal their faults from us.
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We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
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