Scottie Smith:
CLASS OF 1999
Fillmore High SchoolClass of 1999
Fillmore, SK
Scottie's Story
Scottie is from Fillmore, Saskatchewan, Canada. Scottie's schools include Fillmore High School.
Music Scottie likes includes In Autumn Metamorphose, by Giant, The. Books Scottie likes include Your Body and How It Works, The Religion War, The Power of Now. Movies Scottie likes include American Psycho, V For Vendetta, Terror Storm. TV shows Scottie likes include Family Guy, Man vs. Wild, Survivorman featuring Les Stroud.
One of Scottie's favorite quotes is:""Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make."
Good(1965)
“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but th...Expand for more
e outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.”
– Bertrand Russell, “A Free Man’s Worship”
"Why? Because it provides assurance that the world actually operates on a physical-material level through processes that are governed by predictable rules and behaviors that inscribe human communication and understanding (however eccentric) in a recoverable record."
-2008 Johanna Drucker".
More about Scottie:"Edification is Paramount".
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