Voters should consider them, but without illusions about the political parties, and with the recognition that consistenly over the centuries, progres… - Noam Chomsky

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.

The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they’re supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.