Max Tegmark Quotes

"Я помню, как на лекции по квантовой механике Юджин Комминс с серьезным лицом произнес: "Это называется уравнением Клейна-Гордона, поскольку его открыл Шредингер"."

Some AI researchers have argued against all forms of regulation of AI development, claiming that they would needlessly delay urgently needed innovation (for example, lifesaving self-driving cars) and would drive cutting-edge AI research underground and/or to other countries with more permissive governments.

This is exactly what Alan concluded: it couldn't just have been a crazy fluke coincidence that infinitely many separate regions of space underwent Big Bang explosions all at once-some physical mechanism must have caused both the exploding and the synchronizing. One unexplained Big Bang is bad enough; an infinite number of unexplained Big Bangs in perfect synchronization strains credulity.

This is know as the horizon problem, because it involves what we see on our cosmic horizon, int he most distant regions we can observe.

We discussed the spatial part of this paradox in Chapter 9, and concluded that your consciousness is actually observing not the outside world, but rather an elaborate reality model contained in your brain which is continually updated via input from your sensory organs to track what's actually taking place in the outside world.

an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind.

La inteligencia hace posible el control: los humanos controlamos a los tigres no porque seamos más fuertes, sino porque somos más inteligentes. Esto significa que, si dejamos de ser los más inteligentes del planeta, es posible que perdamos también el control.

Does it require interacting with people and using social intelligence? Does it involve creativity and coming up with clever solutions? Does it require working in an unpredictable environment?