Jaan Tallinn Quotes
Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
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Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
