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AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction. – New York	Found on CNN 1 year ago
No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. – Christopher McCandless	added by Normando 1 year ago
This might turn out to be a hot war that could mean the destruction of our entire civilization. This must not be allowed. – Mikhail Gorbachev	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Civilization itself is right now under siege and we can't be just politically correct. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. – Elon Musk	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is not a way to make money, my strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. – Elon Musk	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our civilization is at stake, our way of living, of being free, of promoting our values, our common enterprises and our hopes. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Quinn: Do you know what I have been doing that would have cured me? Fine! I'll tell you. I've been sliding through an interdimensional wormhole seeing how ways people like you can screw up civilization!!!!!! – Amy Martin	added by amym.27955 2 years ago
so there we are, golden drones droning in unison. this is the West man, the pinnacle of civilization. this is where it started man. Come visit my culture. come culture my vision. we all own Automobiles here too. 87 greyhounds died in a fire today. someone lost some bucks. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
There is no relation between Blacks and the origin of the ancient Egyptian civilization at all. – Zahi Hawass	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The chances are that [COVID-19] came from the lab — and…we're up to appropriately 70 million people dead the world now — and this with about 1% mortality. If the next virus that gets out has a 15% or 50% mortality…we essentially destroy the underpinnings of civilization. – Rand Paul	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I believe our government is capitalizing on a politically expedient segment of its constituency in an effort to further dismantle Western civilization as we know it. To do this, it must outlaw its very foundation, which is rooted in a Judeo-Christian worldview. Bill C-4 is another brick laid in this effort and is evidence that our government is under the judgment of God. – John MacArthur	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Yes, it's funny, I understand, but it is the reality. And this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity. And in this way civilization becomes aged and without humanity, because it loses the richness of fatherhood and motherhood. And our homeland suffers, as it does not have children. – The Pope	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We see that people do not want to have children, or just one and no more. And many, many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they have just one -- but they have two dogs, two cats... Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children, yes, it's funny, I understand, but it is the reality. And this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity. And in this way civilization becomes aged and without humanity, because it loses the richness of fatherhood and motherhood. And our homeland suffers, as it does not have children. – The Pope	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Like in archeology, you dig and dig to find older and older artifacts until you come upon remnants of a grand civilization. – Gerald Cecil	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If civilization does crash, this box will survive with a completely objective data story. – Jim Curtis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true? – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 2 years ago
I think that they wanted a token Native, and I think that they were expecting him to sing the praises of the Pilgrims -- to thank them for bringing' civilization' to these shores, they said that he couldn't give that speech because it was too inflammatory and that they'd write him a new one. But he refused to have words put in his mouth. – Kisha James	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Fundamentally, a civilization's problems are rooted in energy development. – Link Starbureiy	added by anonymous 2 years ago
Transportation at its best facilitates the efficient flow of resources, the efficient movement of people, and the efficient utilization of time. Thats why we do what we do at Mayflower-Plymouth. It’t just about cars and bicycles. Its about efficiency. Its about the improvement of the human experience. And ultimately its about the evolution of our planetary civilization. – Hendrith Smith	added by Sizzlaluvva35 2 years ago
Scaling Kardashev is any civilization's primary function. – Link Starbureiy	added by anonymous 2 years ago
This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot. – Colin Wilson	added by Normando 2 years ago
They come from our faith, if we get these right, then we will fulfill our constitutional responsibilities and this will continue to be the most exceptional nation in the history of civilization. That's what I hope to communicate on Monday. – Mike Pompeo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. – Ludwig Von Mises	added by Normando 2 years ago

AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction.

– New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

– Christopher McCandless

added by Normando
1 year ago

This might turn out to be a hot war that could mean the destruction of our entire civilization. This must not be allowed.

– Mikhail Gorbachev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Civilization itself is right now under siege and we can't be just politically correct.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.

– Elon Musk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is not a way to make money, my strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.

– Elon Musk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our civilization is at stake, our way of living, of being free, of promoting our values, our common enterprises and our hopes.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Quinn: Do you know what I have been doing that would have cured me? Fine! I'll tell you. I've been sliding through an interdimensional wormhole seeing how ways people like you can screw up civilization!!!!!!

– Amy Martin

added by amym.27955
2 years ago

so there we are, golden drones droning in unison. this is the West man, the pinnacle of civilization. this is where it started man. Come visit my culture. come culture my vision. we all own Automobiles here too. 87 greyhounds died in a fire today. someone lost some bucks.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

There is no relation between Blacks and the origin of the ancient Egyptian civilization at all.

– Zahi Hawass

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The chances are that [COVID-19] came from the lab — and…we're up to appropriately 70 million people dead the world now — and this with about 1% mortality. If the next virus that gets out has a 15% or 50% mortality…we essentially destroy the underpinnings of civilization.

– Rand Paul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I believe our government is capitalizing on a politically expedient segment of its constituency in an effort to further dismantle Western civilization as we know it. To do this, it must outlaw its very foundation, which is rooted in a Judeo-Christian worldview. Bill C-4 is another brick laid in this effort and is evidence that our government is under the judgment of God.

– John MacArthur

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Yes, it's funny, I understand, but it is the reality. And this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity. And in this way civilization becomes aged and without humanity, because it loses the richness of fatherhood and motherhood. And our homeland suffers, as it does not have children.

– The Pope

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We see that people do not want to have children, or just one and no more. And many, many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they have just one -- but they have two dogs, two cats... Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children, yes, it's funny, I understand, but it is the reality. And this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity. And in this way civilization becomes aged and without humanity, because it loses the richness of fatherhood and motherhood. And our homeland suffers, as it does not have children.

– The Pope

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Like in archeology, you dig and dig to find older and older artifacts until you come upon remnants of a grand civilization.

– Gerald Cecil

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If civilization does crash, this box will survive with a completely objective data story.

– Jim Curtis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
2 years ago

I think that they wanted a token Native, and I think that they were expecting him to sing the praises of the Pilgrims -- to thank them for bringing' civilization' to these shores, they said that he couldn't give that speech because it was too inflammatory and that they'd write him a new one. But he refused to have words put in his mouth.

– Kisha James

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fundamentally, a civilization's problems are rooted in energy development.

– Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
2 years ago

Transportation at its best facilitates the efficient flow of resources, the efficient movement of people, and the efficient utilization of time. Thats why we do what we do at Mayflower-Plymouth. It’t just about cars and bicycles. Its about efficiency. Its about the improvement of the human experience. And ultimately its about the evolution of our planetary civilization.

– Hendrith Smith

added by Sizzlaluvva35
2 years ago

Scaling Kardashev is any civilization's primary function.

– Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
2 years ago

This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot.

– Colin Wilson

added by Normando
2 years ago

They come from our faith, if we get these right, then we will fulfill our constitutional responsibilities and this will continue to be the most exceptional nation in the history of civilization. That's what I hope to communicate on Monday.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

– Ludwig Von Mises

added by Normando
2 years ago

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