In the Lives of Puppets
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He believed that happiness comes not from bodily pleasures or wealth or power, but from living a life that’s right for your soul.”
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No matter what machines can do, no matter how powerful we become, it is the absence of flaws that will be our undoing.
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Our only flaw is that we’ve condemned ourselves to spend eternity mimicking that which we deemed unfit to exist.”
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the stewards of this planet. And like religion, it led us to believe that we were the greater good, that our decisions were made not because of a desire for power, but to preserve life.”
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Humanity—that nebulous concept he didn’t always understand—had lived and died by its creations.