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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

Bill Joy

Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn’t we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
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Asking Development Technological
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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Common Sense Desire Knowledge
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it’s true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.
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Research Use Way
You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
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Program Prove Sugar

We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

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