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“I always thought an AI would be more, well, human,” David started. “That a machine intelligence would be something we could relate to. This thing, whatever ELOPe is, it thinks more like an insect. It does things to promote its survival, very sophisticated things, but we can’t talk to it or understand how it reasons. We can’t have a conversation about what constitutes good behavior or how we can collaborate together.”
― William Hertling, Avogadro Corp

“She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“They’re trying to carve gaps in society that are too big to bridge.”
― Lee Child, The Sentinel

“A horizontal arrow indicates that the attribute varies between less and more complex societies of that type.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel