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Quotes from One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge — Jaron Lanier

born 1960 United States

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

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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.

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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.

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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.

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jaron Lanier (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.