Tag: Isaac Asimov

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To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and metal; electricity and positrons – Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, human-destroyed! But you haven’t worked with them, so you don’t know them. They’re a cleaner better breed than we are.
-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
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There has been much speculation about how humans and artificial intelligence might interact. There is much cultural precedent. From the beginning, these included many cautionary tales. (more…)

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Pondering America’s political landscape since the 1960s can be rather maddening. For the most part, the Right has been spinning its wheels in a rut. (more…)

Yuri Bezmenov

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Back in mother USSR, we used to play a game called “hide the thimble.” The interesting thing about that game involved the requirement that the player hide the thimble in plain sight for all to see. — A Look Inside the Playbook, Anthony Napoleon & Yevgeni Yevtushenkov  (more…)