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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.

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

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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)

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

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

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Digital information is really just people in disguise.

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