About David Marusek: David Marusek is an American author.
What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.
Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.
Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.
Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.
Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated as if you were petting the actual cat. Our minds may k...
In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.
Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.
