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Peter Watts Quotes

We are not thinking machines Picture Quote #1

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors Picture Quote #1

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder Picture Quote #1

Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful. Like old jazz Picture Quote #1

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best Picture Quote #1

$Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives Picture Quote #1$

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Humans didn’t really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources Picture Quote #1

People aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re - we’re feeling machines that happen to think Picture Quote #1

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain Picture Quote #1

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail Picture Quote #1

What’s the survival value of obsessing on a sunset? Picture Quote #1

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion Picture Quote #1

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Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful. Like old jazz Picture Quote #1

You are. I’m just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we’re all gonna die before it ends Picture Quote #1

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart Picture Quote #1

What’s the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you’re alive? Picture Quote #1

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it Picture Quote #1

There’s no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn’t matter whether a solution’s optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative Picture Quote #1

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I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn’t find an algorithm that fit Picture Quote #1

Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black Picture Quote #1

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams Picture Quote #1

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We are not thinking machines (Peter Watts Quotes) Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors (Peter Watts Quotes) Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder (Peter Watts Quotes) Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful. Like old jazz. (Peter Watts Quotes) But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best (Peter Watts Quotes) Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives (Peter Watts Quotes) Humans didn’t really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources (Peter Watts Quotes) People aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re - we’re feeling machines that happen to think (Peter Watts Quotes) I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain (Peter Watts Quotes) Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail (Peter Watts Quotes) What’s the survival value of obsessing on a sunset? (Peter Watts Quotes) It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion (Peter Watts Quotes) Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful. Like old jazz (Peter Watts Quotes) You are. I’m just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we’re all gonna die before it ends (Peter Watts Quotes) If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart (Peter Watts Quotes) What’s the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you’re alive? (Peter Watts Quotes) Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it (Peter Watts Quotes) There’s no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn’t matter whether a solution’s optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative (Peter Watts Quotes) I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn’t find an algorithm that fit (Peter Watts Quotes) Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black (Peter Watts Quotes) This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams (Peter Watts Quotes)