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The attempt to make a superintelligent Homo deus will neither lead back to God nor lead to God, but rather to the greatest rejection of God the world has ever seen.


“I realized,” he said, “that they were building a system whose goal was the elimination of all privacy, globally. To make it so that no one could communicate electronically without the NSA being able to collect, store, and analyze the communication.”
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

“If you set out a cup of warm water on Mars, it’ll try to boil, freeze, and sublimate, practically all at once. Water on Mars seems to want to be in any state except liquid.”
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“Hockey players can also brace pretty hard against the ice. A player skating at full speed can stop in the space of a few meters, which means the force they’re exerting on the ice is pretty substantial. (It also suggests that if you started to slowly rotate a hockey rink, it could tilt up to 50 degrees before the players would all slide to one end. Clearly, experiments are needed to confirm this.)”
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“I had time to kill at the airport and it was a great opportunity for me to buy dark European chocolate, especially since I have managed to successfully convince myself that airport calories don’t count. The”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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