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Peter Watts

Blindsight

  • Arsen Avchikhanovцитує7 років тому
    They must have been sentient to some degree, but that semi-aware dream state would have been a rudimentary thing next to our own self-obsession. They were weeding it out. It was just a phase. They were on their way.
  • vieltunцитує3 роки тому
    You rationalize, Keeton. You defend. You reject unpalatable truths, and if you can't reject them outright you trivialize them. Incremental evidence is never enough for you. You hear rumors of Holocaust; you dismiss them. You see evidence of genocide; you insist it can't be so bad. Temperatures rise, glaciers melt—species die—and you blame sunspots and volcanoes. Everyone is like this, but you most of all. You and your Chinese Room. You turn incomprehension into mathematics, you reject the truth without even knowing what it is."
  • vieltunцитує3 роки тому
    Because if Sarasti was right, scramblers were the norm: evolution across the universe was nothing but the endless proliferation of automatic, organized complexity, a vast arid Turing machine full of self-replicating machinery forever unaware of its own existence. And we—we were the flukes and the fossils
  • Laura scarlotцитує4 місяці тому
    the gates of Heaven
  • Laura scarlotцитує4 місяці тому
    Scylla and Charybdis
  • Laura scarlotцитує4 місяці тому
    Imagine you are Siri Keeton:

    You wake in an agony of resurrection

    Christianism

  • Andrey Karabanovцитує6 місяців тому
    You turn incomprehension into mathematics, you reject the truth without even knowing what it is.
  • Kseniya Avvakumovaцитує7 місяців тому
    U dislke ordrs frm mchnes. Happier ths way.
  • Kseniya Avvakumovaцитує7 місяців тому
    The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.
  • Kseniya Avvakumovaцитує7 місяців тому
    Oh, a few outsiders—Dawkins, Keogh, the occasional writer of hackwork fiction who barely achieved obscurity—wondered briefly at the why of it: why not soft computers, and no more?
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