[ExI] Organization to 'Speed Up" Creation of AGI?

[Stefano Vaj]

2011/12/20 Darren Greer <darren.greer3 at gmail.com>

> Ah yes, but would any of them be as fun? Your comments, Eugen, put me in
> mind of a quote by George Steiner.
>
> "We cannot turn back. We cannot choose the dreams of unknowing. We shall,
> I expect, open the last door in the castle, even if it leads, perhaps *
> because* it leads, on to realities which are beyond the reach of human
> comprehension and control. And we shall do so with that desolate
> clairvoyance, so marvelously rendered in Bartok's music, because opening
> doors is the tragic merit of our identity."
>
> Wonderful quote. Where does it  come from?

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Stefano Vaj
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