#artificial

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#california #country #like #limb #me

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#artificial #child #find #his #i

EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS... ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#posthumanism #sifi #transhumanism #intelligence

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#certain #chasing #deal #i #just

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

When it’s not enough to veto your children’s tendencies, you must in vitro them. ↗

— Bauvard

#children #funny #humor #parenting #funny

I think they are a better race than humans ever were. ↗

— Angelo Tsanatelis

#cyberpunk #cyborg #genetic-engineering #science-fiction #intelligence

Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft. ↗

— Charles Yu

#software #intelligence

Any computer that developed real consciousness was immediately identified by the Genesis subroutine and destroyed. It had been that way since the WikiWars a century ago, when Wikipedia became self-aware and began vengefully reediting its contributors with remote-controlled heavy weaponry. ↗

— Michael Rubens

#the-genesis-subroutine #the-wikiwars #wikipedia #intelligence

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan ↗

— Alan M. Turing

#homophobia #homosexuality #intelligence