logic quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
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"And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable."
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"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?"
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"Boldness and hesitation elicit very different psychological responses in their targets: Hesitation puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them."
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"Proteins are the molecules that execute commands within cells; proteins called enzymes catalyze chemical reactions. This linked series of reactions form a metabolic pathway, where the product of one reaction becomes the input for the next. Which genes are expressed and when - on or off - represents the flow of biological information."
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"Are humans just squishy machines? Could cells be programmed like computers? Could computers be redesigned from biological parts?"
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"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded."
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"Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold."
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"The singularity is the inevitable result of the ever-increasing rate of technological progress."
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"The singularity is the ultimate black swan event - a technological revolution that will change the course of human history forever."
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"Depression is not real. Feeling depressed is real. So, you can feel depressed, but you feel depressed and that is a natural, biological, evolutionary trigger for you to change something in your life. That’s your own mind telling you ‘you’re unhappy about X’. If I went to jail today, I’d be depressed because I’m in jail. I haven’t caught depression, I don’t have a disease, I’m just upset with my situation."
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"We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive."
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