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You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

Bill Joy

A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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Bombs Control Quickly
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Care Running Today
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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Intelligent Robots Small Steps
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
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Ago Editor Long Writing
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
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Couple People Writing

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