Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
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 en… - Peter Watts
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 en…
- Peter Watts
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. - Peter Watts
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams. - Peter Watts
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.
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. - Peter Watts
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.
Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail. - Peter Watts
Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that mat… - Peter Watts
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that mat…
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. - Peter Watts
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metapho… - Peter Watts
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metapho…
What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset? - Peter Watts
What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?
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