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Transhumanists are building the Tower of Babel not to challenge God but to better understand the universe and human beings created in God's image. (Newton Lee)
The last thing we want is a nasty divorce between humans and superintelligent machines, for that would certainly spell the end of the human race. View quote
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Media manipulation is commonplace. For people who do not look outside their comfort zone, they will never learn the whole truth. If scientists had not challenged the status quo, we would not have enjoyed modern medicine and technological innovations today. View quote
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While Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) helps prevent World War III, Total Information Awareness (TIA) offers insights into some of the biggest challenges facing humanity. View quote
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Not only that "every dog has its day”, but also that "every dog has its data” in the digital information age. View quote
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The future is arriving sooner than we imagine. View quote
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Universities are good at producing engineers, doctors, lawyers, and such, but they often gloss over difficult moral and philosophical subjects such as the meaning of life, love, prejudice, war, and peace. View quote
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One of the root causes of miscommunication is that people do not always mean what they say or do. View quote
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Human-machine symbiosis and artificial superintelligence may hold the key to the Holy Grail of human longevity and immortality. View quote
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Knowledge in and of itself is devoid of good and evil. Knowledge, however, does not necessarily make human beings wiser. In fact, knowledge without wisdom can be outright dangerous. View quote
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Is gene editing less ethical than human beings killing one another at wars and destroying wildlife on earth? A biomass study showed that humankind represents just 0.01% of all living things on the planet, and yet humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants. (Newton Lee)
If humans are to colonize another planet, we better have a powerful immune system to protect us from deadly new pathogens. H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds reminds us that the invading Martians overpowered humans but were killed by earthly pathogens to which they had no immunity. View quote
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Faith healers have gotten one thing right: the human body can detect and defeat all types of diseases including cancer-the second leading cause of death in America. Our mind and body are closely connected. But faith healers have neglected one important point: the complex human brain-created in the image of God-is meant to invent new technologies including medical treatments for our mind and body. View quote
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Super longevity motivates people to think very long-term, protect the environment, recycle, prevent wars and destructions, and do everything possible to achieve a better quality of life instead of leaving a big mess to the next generation to fix. View quote
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Boredom often stems from the lack of desire to reinvent oneself. To become a Renaissance man or woman, for instance, can take an eternity. Understandably, not everyone wants to be a polymath, but there are so many great books to read, places to visit, ideas to share, new hobbies to discover, and charities to volunteer for – the bucket list is practically endless. View quote
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The most meaningful toys are not materialistic at all. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died penniless, but his toys were his symphonies, concertos, operas, quartets, and sonatas that have delighted millions of people for hundreds of years and will continue to light up the world. View quote
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Super longevity is not the same as immortality. Sometimes one has to sacrifice super longevity in order to achieve immortality. View quote
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It may be true that superintelligence has nothing to do with human intelligence. However, superintelligence can be a new kind of intelligence that is more advanced than human intelligence. View quote
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Like a good doctor, an intelligent machine is not something we should be afraid of. At best, AI will provide us the smartest teachers, advisers, personal assistants, doctors, police officers, judges, peacekeeping forces, and first responders for search and rescue operations. It may even help us to colonize other planets. At worst, it will put us on a leash to prevent ourselves from hurting one another and destroying the planet. View quote
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A more well-rounded higher education is necessary to graduate more ethical hackers and fewer cybercriminals, more socially responsible leaders and fewer wolves of Wall Street, more gender equality and less sexism, and more open-mindedness and less discrimination. View quote
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People are afraid of AI partly because we see ourselves as imperfect and dangerous. Hence, our creation of AI can also be imperfect and dangerous. (Newton Lee)
What the Judgment of Solomon exemplifies is that wisdom trumps science and technology: Regardless of who the biological mother was-based on DNA test results, King Solomon recognized that the best mother would be the caring woman. Imagine an AI judge who is as wise as King Solomon! View quote
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From flying robot insects to running robot dog to humanoids such as the world's first robot citizen Sophia, artificial life forms are populating the planet Earth; and some people are bound to find artificial life forms more attractive than natural life forms. View quote
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Human game players together with AI agents can create more powerful citizen scientists, resulting in more scientific discoveries. View quote
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Biologically inspired mechanisms will encourage deeper human-machine symbiosis as computers acquire more human intuitions in problem solving. Scientists and gamers will be working and playing side-by-side with intelligent machines as equals, not subordinates. View quote
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