Jaron Lanier

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1. 1960 age 0

   Born

2. 2010 age 50

   CreditTruth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia

• RBRichard Branson1 title
• SGScott Glosserman1 title
• NHNic Hill1 title
• NCNoam Chomsky1 title
• HZHoward Zinn1 title
• RKRaymond Kurzweil1 title
• VCVint Cerf1 title
• JWJimmy Wales1 title
• LLLawrence Lessig1 title
• DTDon Tapscott1 title

• We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people. Information is alienated experience. Information is not something that exists. Indeed, computers don't really exist, exactly; they're only subject to human interpretation. This is a strong primary humanism I am promoting. As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

  Jaron Lanier, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

  Jaron Lanier, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious "proof" that such adventures are futile.

  Jaron Lanier, CC BY-SA 4.0

• People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.

  Jaron Lanier, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better.

  Jaron Lanier, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

  Jaron Lanier, CC BY-SA 4.0