"Science vs. Technology: We should know why things must act as they do, to make them act as we want them to."

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“Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.”

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“If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious.”

“A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.”

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“This fact is clear to those who know it.”

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