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The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence.... eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious "proof" that such adventures are futile.

Jaron Lanier

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Jaron Lanier

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.

Jaron Lanier

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

Jaron Lanier

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier

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Born: May 3, 1960 (age 66)

Bio: Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. A pioneer in the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc.

Known for:

Who Owns the Future? (2013)
You Are Not a Gadget (2010)
Information Is an Alienated Experience (1966)

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