Nick Bostrom Quotes
The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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Over the longer run, advanced economy policy actions that strengthen global growth and global trade will benefit the EMEs as well.
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.
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ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.
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We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.
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Not that I don't care about winning or I don't care about doing well, but I have to care less about the things that happen that are outside of my control.
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The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
