That’s why there’s rules, understand? So that you think before you break ’em.
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Rules
Saturday, April 23, 2022
If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be? Even if we could keep the machines in a subservient position, for instance by turning off the power at strategic moments, we should, as a species, feel greatly humbled. … This new danger … if it comes at all … is remote but not astronomically remote, and is certainly something which can give us anxiety. It is customary, in a talk or article on this subject, to offer a grain of comfort, in the form of a statement that some particularly human characteristic could never be imitated by a machine. It might for instance be said that no machine could write good English, or that it could not be influenced by sex-appeal or smoke a pipe. I cannot offer any such comfort, for I believe that no such bounds can be set.
Alan Turing, quoted by Sebastian Sunday Grève in AI’s first philosopher: https://aeon.co/essays/why-we-should-remember-alan-turing-as-a-philosopher
Friday, June 12, 2020
Alfred Noyes, The Unknown God
Friday, February 28, 2020
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (VIII,52)
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Protagoras (the Sophist)
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
For if everything that is were unlimited, there would not be anything of such a character that it could be recognized.
Philolaus (a Pythagorean)
Sunday, November 03, 2019
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Natural Teleology
See also: http://everythingrum.blogspot.com/2018/01/if-there-was-cosmological-design-what.html
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos
Monday, August 06, 2012
Tell me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements--surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone,
when the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:4-7