Jaron Lanier Short Quotes

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Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

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

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The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

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People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

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The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

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

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A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

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

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A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

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

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Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

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The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much.

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Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

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I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

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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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Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

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Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

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I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process,

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If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

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One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

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The greatest crime of Marxism wasn't simply that much of what it claimed was false but that it claimed to be the sole and utterly complete path to understanding life and reality.

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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.

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