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The strange thing about the great ending is that it’s harder and less fun to describe than good, okay, and bad endings. What if you were given power that seemed unlimited to any mortal observer? What would it mean? What would you do with it? No offense, but your answer is probably uncompelling and uncreative in the scheme of things. I wouldn’t trust you with it. I probably wouldn’t trust myself with it. So what qualities must an artificial superintelligent overmind have such that we can collectively allow such a thing to exist?
Today, in reality, we no longer know very well what space is, what time is and what matter is. The problem of reconciling these two visions of the world is the problem of quantum gravity.
What Is Time? What Is Space?
Carlo Rovelli
One learns about oneself much more by watching than from books or from some psychologist or complicated, clever, erudite scholar or professor.
Total Freedom
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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