#cia

Wiele ważnych problemów publicznych, podobnie jak wiele prywatnych kłopotów, opisuje się w kategoriach „psychiatrycznych” – często, jak się wydaje, w żałosnej próbie ucieczki przed wielkimi problemami i pytaniami nowoczesnego społeczeństwa. ↗

— Charles Wright Mills

#society #imagination

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#political-commentary #politics #posterity #power #resistance

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #happiness #inspirational #knowing-oneself #life

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance

In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free? ↗

— Non Nomen

#social #the-unwords #unauthor #inspirational

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

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#doubt #inteligencia #intelligence #la-duda #skepticism