The Chief Trick To Making Good Mistakes

Ai Makes Philosophy Honest

If The Best The Roboticists Can Hope For Is The Creation Of Some Crude, Cheesy, Second-rate, Artificial Consciousness, They Still Win.

The Idea That God Is A Worthy Recipient Of Our Gratitude For The Blessings Of Life But Should Not Be Held Accountable For The Disasters Is A Transparently Disingenuous Innovation Of The Theologians.

Has It Ever Occurred To You How Lucky You Are To Be Alive? More Than 99 Percent Of All The Creatures That Have Ever Lived Have Died Without Progeny, But Not A Single One Of Your Ancestors Falls Into That Group! ... Not A Single One Of Your Ancestors, All The Way Back To The Bacteria, Succumbed To Predation Before Reproducing, Or Lost Out In The Competition For A Mate.

Philosophers' Syndrome: Mistaking A Failure Of The Imagination For An Insight Into Necessity.