Quotes by Peter Watts

Peter Watts

Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful. Like old jazz.

Beautiful

Jazz

Spheres

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

Brain

Engines

Survival

But pattern-matching doesn’t equal comprehension.

Equal

Matching

Patterns

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Brain

Doe

Self

Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can’t understand their analysis and you can’t verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.

Analysis

Intelligent

Wise

Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

Climbing

Dancer

Running

How do you say ‘We come in peace’ when the very words are an act of war?

War

Humans didn’t really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

Fighting

Skin Tone

Skins

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

Bridges

Men

Wizards

I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn’t find an algorithm that fit.

Algorithms

Fit

Wanted

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Adequate

Algorithms

Alternatives

Analysis

Axes

Beautiful

Believe

Best Effort

Black

Boss

Brain

Bridges

Cheerful

Circles

Climbing

Damage

Dancer

Details

Differences

Dilbert

Doe

Easier

Ends

Engines

Equal

Feelings

Fighting

Fit

Heart

Hurt

Intelligent

Jazz

Kicking

Knowing

Lambs

Lions

Long

Machines

Matching

Men

Mourn

Murder

Not Knowing

Obsessing

Odds

Patterns

People

Perfect

Philosophy

Police

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Quotes by Peter Watts

Peter Watts

Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful. Like old jazz.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

But pattern-matching doesn’t equal comprehension.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

How do you say ‘We come in peace’ when the very words are an act of war?

Humans didn’t really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn’t find an algorithm that fit.

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