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Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

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We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

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The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's ex…

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Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

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We can influence the future but not see it.

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The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, becaus…

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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

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Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to re…

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Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer wil…

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