Jaron Lanier: Humanity

Jaron Lanier is American computer scientist, musician, and author. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.

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“We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people. Information is alienated experience. Information is not something that exists. Indeed, computers don't really exist, exactly; they're only subject to human interpretation. This is a strong primary humanism I am promoting. As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.”

Digerati: Encounters With the Cyber Elite, (1996), ed. by John Brockman

“There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)