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Cortez  ·  3852 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's your favorite passage or quote?

    It began three and a half billion years ago in a pool of muck, when a molecule made a copy of itself and so became the ultimate ancestor of all earthly life.

    It began four million years ago, when brain volumes began climbing rapidly in the hominid line.

    Fifty thousand years ago with the rise of Homo sapiens sapiens. Ten thousand years ago with the invention of civilization. Five hundred years ago with the invention of the printing press. Fifty years ago with the invention of the computer.

    In less than thirty years, it will end.

- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

I absolutely love this man, the field of Artificial Intelligence, ground breaking technology.