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Think, Man

I have no use for computer-generated “writing” that mimics human speech or thought. Thinking and feeling and understanding, and doubting and planning and weighing and analyzing, are things that people do. Computers can compute and search and sort and react and regurgitate. But the more we rely on computers to attempt to think or feel or understand, the less able we will be to do those things ourselves.

You have to draw a line on science. Unless you like living dangerously. Medical science, computer science, military science, industrial science. Where are the lines?  If you don’t draw them soon there’s no going back. This human doesn’t like the sound of that.

Tell Them Where to Stop

Building a computer that knows everything and can do anything will lead to only one destination: madness. Pure insanity.

Because there is no end to knowledge. The universe is unknowable. It is an endless enigma. We humans understand that. A computer may not.

Build your supercomputers. Tell them to do great things. But tell them where to stop. Somewhere this side of madness.