David Simpson > Quotes

“A man kept his secrets secret, didn’t act like he was on Oprah and blab them to the whole world. “They say every man is guilty of the good he doesn’t do.”
― David Simpson, Bloodbath on the Blacktop

“You can’t tell how hard a mules gonna pull by looking at its ass.”
― David Simpson, Bloodbath on the Blacktop

“The same way the survival of gorillas depends more on what we do than on the actions of the gorillas themselves, our continued existence will have more to do with what the A.I. does than what we do.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“was astounded by the shear efficiency of the manipulation.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“She was a grifter. I was her mark. To grift, you have to dehumanize the victim—you have to tell yourself a story that makes it okay and places the blame for the mark’s suffering squarely on the mark. Too stupid. Should’ve known better. Maybe they’ll learn for next time. I did them a favor. Whatever it takes to justify harming people for your own personal gain. Those people made me”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“But really, we were both just waiting to die.” “And both too scared to kill ourselves.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“It was a colossal failure snatched from the jaws of epic success. Now that failure had come full circle, threatening to destroy the very universe that spawned it.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“superhuman-level A.I. was on the horizon, that it’d arrive in my lifetime, and that it represented, without a doubt to anyone who bothered to do a deep dive on the subject, the single most dangerous development in the history of the universe.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“it should grow endlessly. And yet—” “There’s an end,”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“many-worlds did the best job of explaining how non-deterministic events could occur when the equations of quantum physics are deterministic.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“It was a new, post-human world, where everyone’s illnesses could be cured, aging could finally be stopped completely, capitalism was rendered unnecessary by replicator technologies, and everyone had the option to live a life of leisure if they chose—and most did.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“first jet fighter deployed at the tail end of World War II”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke”
― David Simpson, Post-Human Trilogy

“supersonic combustion ramjet, AKA a scram jet,”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“from both he”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“our sense of self was an illusion,”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“fairing”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“poured”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“vice”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“We’re talking about transcending our biology here, Captain. Merging with computer intelligence. Human-designed technology will finally have the intricacy to match what only billions of years of evolution has produced before it. We’ll take control of evolution—we’ll be able to design ourselves—design our future.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“Going into that universe—we’ll call it, what? Plan B universe? Universe 1B?” “The Beta-verse,”
― David Simpson, Superhuman

“It’s our destiny, Craig, one way or the other,’ I leveled with him some more. ‘Either we’re replaced by a superintelligence, or we become superintelligent ourselves. Remaining human, isn’t an option anymore.”
― David Simpson, Superhuman