Buzz Kill Quotes

“Disagreeing has become an easy way to feel better about yourself for being smarter than everybody else. I call it the assholier-than-thou syndrome.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“A pandemic involving a human-targeting virus leads to societal collapse”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Charly was basically the same movie, but with a veneer of science fiction and for the brain as opposed to the body. It was also an allegory for what Gladys and the others had. The moronic Charly is given a treatment that turns him into a supergenius—one so smart he’s the first to discover that the effects of his treatment won’t last. He struggles to figure out a fix but becomes increasingly incapable of understanding his own work. The film ends with him as an idiot again, playing in a playground somewhere.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Each a frog in its own pot of water as the temperature ticked up a degree at a time.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Buzz” was Buzz and was conscious. Whether it had happened as a result of Cassi providing it an inner voice, the accumulation of qubits, or reverse engineering its way to a “theory of mind” with help from her human caricature of a face, Pandora no longer had any doubts about their AI having passed the Turing test.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“once a computer starts directing changes to its own programming . . .”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“The mind is an organ of creation; it organizes matter and energy, manipulates time and space. It organizes chaos into narrative.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“There were better things to do with life than giving in to the peer pressure of mortality.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Turns out, utilitarianism’s way too simplistic,”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“branched and branched again until one of the branches brought Player Two to a sideways diamond leading to Yes.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“The development of suicidal ideation in nonsuicidal members of the target demographic.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“And the scariest thing—a superintelligent AI would be smart enough to hide what it was until it was too late.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Frankenstein?”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“George had filled up his head with all the necessary bits and pieces for resolving a problem—all the individual trees—but then hit the forest and was overwhelmed. Finally deciding to accept failure, he let his mind get distracted and . . . plop. There it was: the answer.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“It’s a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles—inside me and outside me—and the point where they overlap is where my experience of consciousness is located.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Curiosity familiarized the cat with its surroundings so it wouldn’t be surprised.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“colocation.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“as far as Buzz is concerned, the universe is two things: me and not me.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“passive-aggressive emoji”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Peekaboo teaches a baby to imagine the continuity of reality,” George wrote. “And that’s an important step toward achieving consciousness.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“That the dying mind would take us back to the time when we felt most alive.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Google uses click-through statistics as a way to rank search results,” George typed. “For people, memory search optimization is achieved by the emotional residue associated with the memories being searched. The strongest emotional associations cause those memories to rank highest.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“So you’re saying that death is the kick in the pants our species needs to not turn into vegetables.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“So you’re saying that having kids is what it’s all about and once you’ve had them you start waiting to die?”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“She’d calmly removed her headphones and was about to call out her guess when she noticed the red spatters on her curtain and a couple of brain snails sliding down the other side of the translucent vinyl. Crap, she thought. Gingerly pinching a corner of the curtain and sliding it aside, she stepped into the living room, where she found her dad and his ex-client. Her father was still seated opposite the body lying beached-whale-like on the floor. Roger’s own face was stricken, blood spattered, and frozen while his hands eagle-clawed the arms of his chair. “Dad?” Pandora asked. “Yes?” Roger said, not moving. “Should I call someone?” “Yes,” he said, still not moving. “Who?” she asked. “Anyone,” he replied.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“I’m coding an artisanal consciousness.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“I’m afraid of the line,” she’d said. “What line’s that?” Pandora had asked. “The one I can’t come back from.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“grief bot”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“It seems symbolic that I can’t write my name anymore,” she told Mr. Nosy.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Perhaps people found talking to software less intimidating than talking to an actual person; maybe it was because a computer could ask them franker questions that would be deemed too invasive or rude coming from a human.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill