Brian Christian quotes
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“Existence without essence is very stressful.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.”
-- Brian Christian
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“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
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Source : Geoff Dyer (2014). “Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence”, p.205, North Point Press
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“Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.”
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Source : Commencement Speech at Connecticut College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.
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