re for reward. Different environments either encourage this biology or discourage it, a topic that occupies chapter 4. As the eighteenth century poet William Blake remarked “The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.” To more deepl

eometric insight and other intuitions aren’t the same as mathematical proofs; that the mystical visions of the English romantic poet and illustrator, William Blake, were not necessarily consistent with the scientific observations and logical arguments of the contemporary Scottish philosopher, David Hume. Paul Ti

but there's no conspirator--it's the wrong word. That's why | say it's just natural law. It is all perfect.” “Would you agree with the concept--what William Blake said, that humans were created ‘for joy and woe'--the implication of which is that there will always be suffering?” “| think that suffering is part

e are human ones. But there is no reason to suppose that an AGI created in a society consisting primarily of decent citizens, and raised without what William Blake called “mind-forg’d manacles,” will in general impose such manacles on itself (1.e., become irrational) and/or choose to be an enemy of civilization.

e are human ones. But there is no reason to suppose that an AGI created in a society consisting primarily of decent citizens, and raised without what William Blake called “mind-forg’d manacles,” will in general impose such manacles on itself (1.e., become irrational) and/or choose to be an enemy of civilization.

in An INVITATION to POETRY A. R. Ammons • John Ashbery • Margaret Atwood • W. H. Auden • Charles Baudelaire • Samuel Beckett • Elizabeth Bishop • William Blake • Eavan Boland • Gwendolyn Brooks • Robert Browning • Julia de Burgos • Paul Celan • E. E. Cummings • Emily Dickinson • John Donne • S. Eliot • Da