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• So what is Hopi? Hopi is a word. It's a high moral standard that is open to everybody. But it's a conscious choice. You either make a choice to be Hopi , or you just do what you want to do. If you make a conscious decision to be Hopi, your whole…

  VERNON MASAYESVA

• The industry is desperate for us to become rational, self-interested consumers with goals (Homo sapiens), instead of what we actually area screeching panoply of annoying semiconscious super-chimps (Homo molestus).

  Paul Ford

• New synonyms for Global Warming: Global Boiling Global Weirding or Climate Disregulation Various news commentators California’s secular faith in nature is that water plus sunshine equals enlightenment.

  Daniel Duane

• You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius, 2nd century CE

• When deprived of acknowledgment in a shared space, we seek knowledge as consolation in the recesses of another’s mind. To make it feel less alien, we should use AI tools more – not less. To relieve our doubts about conversational AI, we should…

  Larry S. McGrath

• Unless the discoveries of ecological science are rapidly translated into meaningful actions, they will remain quietly archived while the biosphere degrades.

  William Schlesinger

• If there is to be an answer to the problem of control, it’s going to be more control.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

• When it comes to rolling climate change, total control, at least, may be an illusion, although one on which we have intuitively erected our hopes for navigating a hotter future.

  David Wallace

• There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless…

  Charles Darwin

• There is no one future, just as there is no one story. But storytelling is our oldest technology: a system for ordering and transmitting information across time, space, language, and difference. Stories surround and penetrate us; they bind us…

  Madeline Ashby

• Large language models like GPT have no reflective consciousness. That’s why saying GPT is “slightly conscious” is like saying a field of wheat is slightly pasta.

  Murray Shanahan

• A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.

  Walt Whitman

• It bears repeating that what makes life livable is our ability our willingness to move through the world wonder-smitten by reality. The most wonderful thing about wonder is that it knows no scale, no class, no category it can be found in a geranium…

  Maria Popova

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  Gandalf, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

• I fear I am beyond your comprehension.

  Gandalf the White, THE TWO TOWERS

• Remember, change happens slowly and then all at once.

  Jennifer Rubin

• Super-intelligence • What would happen if a large neural net running on multiple digital computers acquired knowledge directly from the world (in addition to mimicking human language to acquire all human knowledge? - It could do this by…

  Geoffrey Hinton

• GPT-4 is not a stochastic parrot, nor a blurry jpeg of the web, nor an evil Lovecraftian “shoggoth,” nor some cartoon Waluigi. The simple but best metaphor for GPT-4 is that it’s a dormant digital neocortex trained on human data just sitting…

  Erik Hoel

• Intelligence is the capacity to do the right thing at the right time. Being intelligentas humans think we aremay give us new ways of being conscious, and some forms of human and animal intelligence may require consciousness, but basic conscious…

  Anil Seth

• Expand your mind by thinking with your feet on a walk or with your hand in a notebook. Think outside your brain.

  Kevin Kelly