George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
Richard Paul
- Possible Futures of Humanity
The 21st century may very well be the end of humanity as it exists, whether we will destroy our own habitat, creating mysterious ruins and artifacts for a civilization perhaps millions of years into the future, or we may replace ourselves with self learning algorithms, creating a highly efficient intelligence which we will put in charge of everything, and in this way humanity will replace itself, before realizing that life without consciousness may not have the same meaning.
