"We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity."

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• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.815
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• Progress in theory and practice requires a novel conception of 'machines as they could be,' based on the profound lessons of biology at all scales.claim0.799
  The paper's overarching constructive goal, paralleling Langton's 'life as it could be'
• "Intelligence: the ability to reach the same ends by different means." — William Jamesconcept0.796
• The attention needed to achieve mechanical perfection drives out the possibility of paying attention to real perfection or adaptation in the centers.claim0.793
  The two goals conflict.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.790
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• Capability can become polish, and polish can diminish life—Alexander's central insight empirically demonstrated in AI outputs.claim0.778
• If we allow ourselves the luxury of paying attention to our own ideas, we shall certainly fail.claim0.776
  The danger of the maker's ego interfering with the unfolding process.
• "As one's reach is amplified, so too one's vision."concept0.776