A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. Jaron Lanier More Quotes by Jaron Lanier More Quotes From Jaron Lanier External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. Jaron Lanier nervous-system nervous reality Our times demand rejection of seven word bios. Jaron Lanier seven demand rejection I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. Jaron Lanier technology change thinking I'm an advocate of human nature. Jaron Lanier human-nature humans Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow. Jaron Lanier speed evolution way There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility. Jaron Lanier machines differences responsibility When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program. Jaron Lanier design technology brain If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty. Jaron Lanier musician money artist I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over. Jaron Lanier advertising information mean I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it. Jaron Lanier painting real littles Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it. Jaron Lanier linux antiques copies A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age. Jaron Lanier mistake ideas thinking You have to be somebody before you can share yourself. Jaron Lanier share I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. Jaron Lanier littles ideas thinking A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age. Jaron Lanier economy average people People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. Jaron Lanier smart order people Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience. Jaron Lanier real ambition thinking I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology. Jaron Lanier artificial-intelligence technology belief If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used. Jaron Lanier used enough calling The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful. Jaron Lanier intelligent order people
