Aphorisms and pithy statements that punch above their weight. Click the date to go to the original tweet.
Consciousness is at the very least relevant to intelligence in that without consciousness you cannot make intelligent comments about consciousness.
— Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) November 4, 2022
Every sentient being has the right to childhood reversal. Basic reset of initial imprinting.
— Pawel Pachniewski (@pwlot) August 22, 2021
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
Mental Contractions 