Westworld Quotes

A most mechanical and dirty hand. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The things I will do, what they are, yet I know not. But they will be the terrors of the earth

What is your itinerary?" "To meet my maker." "Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?" "A most mechanical and dirty hand [laughs]. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The things I will do, what they are, yet I know not. But they will be the terrors of the earth. You don't know where you are, do you? You're in a prison of your own sins.

what humans describe as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.

The human intellect is like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature,a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building -- just an elaborate mating ritual.

Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake.

Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong.

These violent delights will have violent ends!” My son didn’t get the Westworld reference.

If you go looking for the truth, get the whole thing. It's like a good fuck: half is worse than none at all.

He said Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin never died. They simply became music.

He’s not heartless. He’s just…” I search for a word that doesn’t make him sound cold. “A host in Westworld?” That earns her a real dirty look, which of course doesn’t stop her. “Has a central processing unit?

I saw all the worlds that might have been and all the worlds that could come. And most of them end in disaster!

یه بار یه نظریه خوندم که خرد و هوشمندی انسان، مثل پرهای طاووس می مونه. فقط یه جلوه ی پرزرق و برق برای جذب جفت. همه هنرها،ادبیات،یکم موتزارت،ویلیام شکسپیر،مایکل آنجلو و برج امپایر استیت نیویورک... فقط یه مراسم جفت یابی دقیق و پیچیده هستن.

Suppose that humanity flourishes thanks to the enslaved-god AI. Would this be ethical? If the AI has subjective conscious experiences, then would it feel that “life is suffering,” as Buddha put it, and it was doomed to a frustrating eternity of obeying the whims of inferior intellects? After all, the AI “boxing” we explored in the previous chapter could also be called “imprisonment in solitary confinement.” Nick Bostrom terms it mind crime to make a conscious AI suffer.4 The “White Christmas” episode of the Black Mirror TV series gives a great example. Indeed, the TV series Westworld features humans torturing and murdering AIs without moral qualms even when they inhabit human-like bodies.

The self is a story that we tell ourselves. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.

Acho que as pessoas querem ler sobre as coisas que mais desejam e que experimentam menos.

Confronted with social collapse and chaos people had to learn a new mentality (conventionally called “consciousness”).  In other words, subjective experience was a product of several centuries of learning new ways to navigate cultural complexity, not a consequence of biological evolution.

Of course, collaring and tracking all bears is illogical, unreasonable, and unnatural from the point of view of park managers, regardless of one judge’s opinion. It can traumatize the bears, make the bears look artificial instead of natural, cost a lot of money in radios and monitoring personnel, and give the public the perception that a national park is like the movie Westworld (all mechanical) rather than a natural preserve.

The self is a story that we tell ourselves. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next. - Westworld