Jaron Lanier Quotes
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I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
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I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.
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Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.
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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
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I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
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The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.
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I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.
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There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better.
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There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
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Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.
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Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.
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Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.
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Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.