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“One day an invitation arrived at their house. The prince was celebrating his exploitation of the dispossessed and marginalized peasantry by throwing a fancy dress ball. Cinderella’s sisters-of-step were very excited to be invited to the palace. They began to plan the expensive clothes they would use to alter and enslave their natural body images to emulate an unrealistic standard of feminine beauty. (It”
― Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
― Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
“is not easy to ascertain what an algorithm actually is, simply by examining its output.”
― The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
― The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
“Somehow, consciousness is needed in order to handle situations where we have to form new judgements, and where the rules have not been laid down beforehand.”
― The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
― The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
“The judgement-forming that I am claiming is the hallmark of consciousness is itself something that the AI people would have no concept of how to program on a computer.”
― The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
― The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
“Cinderella arrived. She was dressed in a clinging gown woven of silk stolen from unsuspecting silk-worms. Her hair was festooned with pearls plundered from hard-working, defenseless oysters. And on her feet, dangerous though it may seem, she wore slippers made of finely cut crystal.”
― Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
― Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
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