Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
Peter WattsStichwörter: power control totalitarianism marketing memes perception-of-reality
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
Peter WattsStichwörter: life-philosophy brutality altruism self-interest
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.
Peter WattsStichwörter: wisdom comprehension artificial-intelligence data-analysis post-modern-technofaith
Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.
Peter WattsThe longer it takes me to track you down, the more hope you have of escaping.
Peter WattsInnately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.
Peter WattsStichwörter: affection
If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree.
Peter WattsStichwörter: warriors outfoxed outnumbered
My genes done gone and tricked my brain
By making fucking feel so great
That's how the little creeps attain
Their plan to fuckin' replicate
But brain's got tricks itself, you see
To get the bang but not the bite
I got this here vasectomy
My genes can fuck themselves tonight.
- The R-Selectors, Trunclade
Stichwörter: sex procreation vasectomy
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.
Peter WattsStichwörter: evolution survival-of-the-fittest
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.
Peter WattsStichwörter: war ideologies resources
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