There is no indisputable proof for the big bang,” said Hollus. “And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence,” said Hollus, “or it is deliberate design.
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed.
¨Kayla replied, ´And we—or the p-zeds, at any rate—copy indiscriminately, without reflection. And if the person they´re coyping is a psychopath, then their behavior ends up being de facto psychopathic, too.´ ¨
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I’d every known, every place I’d ever been. My Mother. My father. Rebecca. Out of site. Out of mind.
The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.
George Orwell’s science-fiction classic ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ wasn’t a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.
All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.
It’s possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don’t see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity. I have friends who very much do believe in that. But I don’t.
When we have machines that are as intelligent – and then twice as intelligent – as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.