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firethief on May 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural...

Our generation is going to get old and feeble and eventually die. If we have children, they'll completely supplant us.

Our relevance is ephemeral, but our influence will be lasting. Do we want to have a legacy of clinging to our personal feelings of importance, or of embracing the transience of our existence and nurturing our (intellectual) progeny?

cousin_it on May 23, 2015 [–]

We let our children inherit the world because we want them to be happy. Not so with machines designed to carry out industrial tasks.

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