1. “Human working memory is able to hold no more than some four or five chunks of information at any given time.”
2. “There are some problems that technology can’t solve.”
3. “Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.”
4. “We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its botte forever.”
5. “Human nature is a work in progress.”
6. “When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.”
7. “Some little idiot is bound to press the ignite bottom just to see what happens.”
8. “We find ourselves in a thicket of strategic complexity, surrounded by a dense mist of uncertainty.”
9. “For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in he ageing process, either by slowing or revering it.”
10. “Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.”
11. “We can think of wisdom as the ability get the important things approximately right.”
12. “The creationist, too, is a truthlover, albeit one whose affections are unreciprocated.”
13. “Solving the value-loading problem is a research challenge worthy of some of the next generation’s best mathematical talent.”
14. “Newer systems use statistical machine learning techniques that automatically build statistical models from observed usage patterns.”
15. “Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.”
