Jaron Lanier - Human Quotes

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We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people. Information is alienated experience. Information is not something that exists. Indeed, computers don't really exist, exactly; they're only subject to human interpretation. This is a strong primary humanism I am promoting. As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

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There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

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Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum of all the human brains connected through the
internet) happen to motivate infelicitous technological designs.
For instance, designs that celebrate the noosphere tend to energize the inner troll, or bad actor, within humans.

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People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.

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There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

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