Aphorisms and pithy statements that punch above their weight. Click the date to go to the original tweet.
Symbolic AI: if it doesn’t emerge from your AI, you’re doing it wrong.
— Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) December 1, 2019
You can’t imagine how superintelligence can become a threat to humanity? That’s how.
— Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 12, 2019
Becoming physically fit is like gaining an exoskeleton for the body and an endoskeleton for the mind.
— Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) February 21, 2018
Practice the skill, not the method.
— Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 19, 2017
The whole universe is spooky action at a distance.
— Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 7, 2017
Philosophy: answer questions and question answers.
— Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) May 16, 2017
Acclimatization of consciousness to itself is its most treacherous quality.
— Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) May 15, 2017
One agent’s salience is another agent’s epistemic distraction. #AI
— Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) May 10, 2017
Neural Networks may seem difficult to scrutinize, but at least you don’t have to convince them to undergo examination. For now.
— Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) January 3, 2017
Dementia is life rife with continuity errors.
— Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 4, 2016
What happens when you turn politics into entertainment? Entertainers enter the arena and win.
— Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 2, 2016
The past, a time formerly known as the future.
— Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) February 28, 2016
The Turing test tests natural gullibility, not artificial intelligence.
— Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) February 6, 2016
Demonstrably unfriendly natural intelligence seeks to create provably friendly artificial intelligence. — Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 8, 2015
Ficts are facts in fiction.
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— Paweł Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 5, 2015
Laissez-faire, also known as Laissez-brûler. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) May 3, 2015
Ambiguity is the canvas upon which the reader’s mind is free to paint. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) April 9, 2015
All it takes to be convinced that philosophical zombies are conceivable is a short talk with an eliminativist. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) April 6, 2015
Occam’s razor is a double-edged blade. It might also be sharper on one side. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 23, 2015
Social media is where people practice their staircase wit. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 12, 2015
Winning arguments is overrated. Win the truth. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 2, 2015
Mathematical platonism is the unreasonable conclusion drawn from the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 2, 2015
Narrow AI essentially entails bearing the astronomical computational costs of not understanding understanding. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) October 26, 2014
Dolphins are not the cute creatures people may think they are. And people are not the cute creatures dolphins may think they are. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 21, 2014
Hell hath no fury like an identity scorned. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 15, 2014
The beauty of nothing is that you can always count on it. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 10, 2014
Until we defeat aging, life is a death sentence. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 7, 2014
Time can be spent, but not refunded. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 31, 2014
Losers are better winners than winners are losers. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 29, 2014
Video without audio. Human: “Where is the sound?” Dog: “Where is the scent?” — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 17, 2014
The philosopher’s mind is the philosopher’s lab. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 10, 2014
One of the problems with eliminativism is that if you’re really good at it, you end up eliminating yourself. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 6, 2014
Artificial intelligence should not be computational overcompensation for the misunderstanding of natural intelligence. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 3, 2014
Perhaps we could solve aging if we pretended our lives depend on it. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) July 23, 2014
Is time travel possible, you ask? What do you think you’re doing now? — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) July 14, 2014
Great minds don’t think alike. If they did, they wouldn’t be great minds. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) July 9, 2014
Whether you believe free will is an illusion or not, you’re right. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) June 23, 2014
Perhaps the scariest thing about the Terminator is that its human exterior doesn’t require viewers to suspend disbelief. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) June 22, 2014
Imagine being a magnificently advanced machine that despite its stunning features would endure wear & tear considered too severe to repair. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) June 10, 2014
When a mudslinger demands you get off your high horse, don’t. You’ll slip. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) June 7, 2014
Self-help helps self by not helping selves. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) April 20, 2014
Most people work a job they don’t like, and working at a job you don’t like amounts to trading in mental health for money. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) June 11, 2014
The ability to read & write does not make you a philosopher any more than the ability to count & do arithmetic makes you a mathematician. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) May 13, 2014
The dark side of vision is supervision. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) May 6, 2014
If no one is allowed to be wildly wrong, no one may be able to be wildly right. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) April 19, 2014
Rage is but a cage. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) April 18, 2014
Problems in philosophy of mind are bigger than philosophy of mind. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 12, 2014
Some people can read, some people read. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 27, 2014
Even a tabula rasa needs a tabula. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 15, 2014
As reductionists we have to guard not to keep reducing wholes into parts again and again until we have reduced everything to nothing. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 4, 2014
Silence, the natural sound amplifier. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 1, 2014
Insomnia is the secret fairy godmother of art. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) February 23, 2014
Whatever can be explained at 5th grade reading level, should be explained at 5th grade reading level. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) December 7, 2013
You know who can’t appreciate the meaning you ascribe to death? The dead. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) November 21, 2013
Death, the deadest of deadlines. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) October 6, 2013
The greatest barriers in life are the imagined ones. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 15, 2014
Chupacabra refers to either a mythical creature or a lonely farmer. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 4, 2014
Interesting is the least interesting qualifier of something interesting. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) June 2, 2013
The strength of evolution is that it doesn’t know what it’s doing. The weakness of evolution is that it doesn’t know what it’s doing. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 26, 2013
Humans are monsters you’re used to seeing. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) February 4, 2013
The cost of possession is loss. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 11, 2012
The greater the discrepancy between your conscious and your subconscious, the greater the volatility of your ideas and insights. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 18, 2011
Arrogance is the triumph of ego over intelligence. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) December 9, 2010
The greater the discrepancy between what you want to achieve and what you want to be doing every day, the greater the chance you will fail. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) November 21, 2010
I don’t get why society doesn’t have a sign-up form and why I was never asked if I agree to its terms. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) December 2, 2010
Underestimation substitutes courage. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) November 24, 2010
Believe you can do more than you think, because if you do, you will. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) September 3, 2010
Some people get annoyed when you tell them about your dreams, simply because it reminds them that they have given up on theirs. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) May 21, 2010
Maybe you can’t achieve all you can conceive, but you definitely cannot achieve what you cannot conceive. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) May 3, 2010
Discipline is best cultivated through passion. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) April 16, 2010
You reap what you sow, but if don’t sow you reap nothing. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 14, 2010
Not knowing what you want but hoping for success is like trying to kick a ball into a goal with your eyes closed, hoping to score. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) January 22, 2010
Wisdom is knowing what to do with knowledge. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) April 30, 2010
True friendship is a strong bond between two people that is independent of its own course. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) March 17, 2010
The only test true love has to pass is that it doesn’t require any testing at all. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) February 7, 2010
Music that triggers emotions, bookmarks moments in your memory. — Pawel A. Pachniewski (@pwlot) July 31, 2010
In a world where pretense and dishonesty dominate, honesty and authenticity trigger suspicion. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) January 3, 2010
Social media is augmented ego. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) November 2, 2009
Power exposes morality. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) November 10, 2009
Take responsibility for your life, but do not grow up. There is no benefit to it. — Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) November 15, 2009
