Canadian - Writer | April 29, 1960 -
Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.
Robert J. Sawyer
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A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.
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Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.
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I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.
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In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed.
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I am very pro-science.
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I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.
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I've had many of my books optioned.
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Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for.
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All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.
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Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.
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A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers.
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