Quotes about "Artificial Intelligence & Ethics"

I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses. ”

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. ”

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff. ”

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else. ”

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ”

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. ”

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ”

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ”

Grub first, then ethics. ”

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us. ”