There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in intelligence] and some problems move from "impossible" to "obvious." Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: 1996 staring-into-the-singularity
Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.
Christopher HitchensTags: death propaganda 1995 1998 famine 1997 aid north-korea kim-jong-il kim-il-sung 1996 north-korean-famine
A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for an English newspaper. The experience was proving to be a degradation of the act of reading. Imagine, if you will, being strapped into a chair and made to listen to Liberace playing the piano for hour upon hour. Or imagine being fed chocolate dinner mints, like a hapless goose, until you are on the verge of explosion. Such was my lot.
Christopher HitchensTags: reading literary-criticism newspapers 1996 barbara-bush
If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
Christopher HitchensTags: religion atheism opium-of-the-people 1996 cornel-west louis-farrakhan
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