“I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with...” — Jaan Tallinn Quote

I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.

Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

Some people are on their darn computers all day long.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.