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I wonder whether or when artificial intelligence will ever crash the barrier of meaning.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory; but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

The more experimental scientists and engineers are, the more common sense they have, and so on until you get to the mathematicians, who are totally devoid of common sense.

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.

Indiscrete Thoughts (2008)

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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

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The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Any aeai [A.I., artificial intelligence ] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.

Ian McDonald River of Gods (2006)

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