Quotes by : David Marusek

What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain,....

Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid,....

Why do we need so many people on Earth? I ask you. What are they good for? They live out ludicrous lives....

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes....

When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first....

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.