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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Bill Joy

We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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 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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want

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