Brian Christian famous quotes

Existence without essence is very stressful.
-- Brian Christian

#Essence #Stressful #Existence

To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.
-- Brian Christian

#Intelligent #Views #People

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
-- Brian Christian

#Tests #Failing #Construction

The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.
-- Brian Christian

#Writing #Fighting #Swimming

Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.
-- Brian Christian

#Needs #Inquiry #Want

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.
-- Brian Christian

#Art #Might #Compression

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.