TOO MUCH PLEASURE ... If AI (Artificial Intelligence) had been available only two centuries ago, it would have advised bloodletting as the treatment for fever. Too much pleasure becomes pain. Riddle: What is stronger than democracy, communism, kingship, and dictatorship? Answer: Corruption. Once begun, it reproduces. It’s forever. If you never had the brain in the first place, no number of memory improvement pills will help. Three types of risk: a. Risks you are willing to take, b. Risks you are not willing to take, and c. Risks you don’t know you’re taking. The no-man’s land between science and theology is called philosophy. --- Bertrand Russell. Every great philosopher takes a crack at defining truth . All have failed. The two qualities of a successful theory are (A) It is predictive, and (B) It explains new phenomena.
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