I Think Religion For Many People Is

If The Best The Roboticists Can Hope For Is The Creation Of Some Crude, Cheesy, Second-rate, Artificial Consciousness, They Still Win.

In Short, We Need To Recover The Courage We Celebrate In Our Heroes, And In Particular, The Courage To Tolerate, For The Sake Of A Free Society, A Level Of Risk We Hardly Ever Imagined In The Past.

Some Philosophers Can't Bear To Say Simple Things, Like "suppose A Dog Bites A Man." They Feel Obliged Instead To Say, "suppose A Dog D Bites A Man M At Time T," Thereby Demonstrating Their Unshakable Commitment To Logical Rigor, Even Though They Don't Go On To Manipulate Any Formulae Involving D, M, And T.

In All Mammalian Species That Have So Far Been Carefully Studied, The Rate At Which Their Members Engage In The Killing Of Conspecifics Is Several Thousand Times Greater Than The Highest Homicide Rate In Any American City.

Try To Acquire The Weird Practice Of Savoring Your Mistakes, Delighting In Uncovering The Strange Quirks That Led You Astray. Then, When You Have Sucked Out All The Goodness To Be Gained From Having Made Them, You Can Cheerfully Forget Them And Go On To The Next Big Opportunity.